Matthew wrote:
>(I don't seem to have received Dan's
>poems, only the interview.)
Uh huh....
They should have gone up simultaneously. I received a copy back from
jiscmail, but I get the impression that others didn't? I'll post again
and see what happens...let me know if it also disappears.
Maria said:
>"Can rhyme be made to work?"
>
>I'm curious - why would you think that it wouldn't - or hasn't in the past?
A rhyming play can grate horrendously on the contemporary ear. Geoffrey
Hill did a great version of Peer Gynt which rhymes, but if you read it
out loud, you wouldn't know (I think, - not sure - that he used half
rhymes and terza rima). But I can't think of any 20C dramatists who've
made it work in a work entire, apart from things like say Brecht's songs
(this is the cue for people to jump in waving examples).
It's a kind of seductive thought to try one, tho. Like trying to
translate Sonnets to Orpheus with the rhymes and making it actually work.
And perhaps impossible.
Best
A
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