Abstract
The stock device of the play is a double irony like a Seidlitz powder, piling a dramatic irony onto what was already an irony. This forces one to read back a more complex irony into the first one, and the composure of language of the characters makes us feel that the speaker took the whole sense for granted. ... The trick of style that makes this plausible is Comic Primness, the double irony in the acceptance of a convention. ... No sentence of the play is quite free from this trick.... 1
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