5. Debate regarding appropriateness of Rhyme and Blank verse | John Dryden | An Essay
Channel: DoE-MKBU
Date: 2012-06-23

- The transcript discusses a controversy related to the use of rhymes in dramatic poetry.
- The controversy involves a debate between two characters, Neander and Crispus, about whether serious plays should be written in verse with rhymes.
- Neander supports the use of rhyme and verse in serious plays, arguing that it adds grandeur and pleasure to the performance.
- Crispus opposes the idea, suggesting that it can make the play feel artificial and disrupt the naturalness of the enactment.
- Despite Neander's defense, it is noted that Dryden, the playwright in question, later wrote a famous play that was not in verse, indicating a shift in his own views on the matter.