Puns were used by shakespeare to
a. explain historical background to the audience.
b. add humor or hidden meanings to a scene.
c. create a tone of confusion in his plays.
d. encourage audiences to listen more carefully.

Pun refers to wordplay which involves more than one meaning which creates the rhetorical or humorous effect. It requires large vocabulary to be understood. Similarly irony is an expression which is opposite in its meaning and creates the emphatic and humorous effect.

Puns were used by Shakespeare to add humor or hidden meanings to a scene.

For example pun used by Shakespeare in play romeo and Juliet's prologue:

"From forth the fatal loins of these two foes,

A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life."

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i will have to go with 1.

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