In the process, one then opens the wide scope of verbal by-play, whereby the play may live as a dynamic vehicle, enhancing the language, and underlining the comic situation with new dialogue that capitalizes on the modern wit. Watching a play in verse keeps our attention engaged in ways that few other plays do. While verse may strike some as unnatural, so is the process of inviting hundreds of people into one's living room to watch some of one's most intimate moments. We don't just put life on stage, unchecked. All of these violations of nature take life as we know it and elevate it to a higher plane, making it more special, unique, clever, and emotional.
Art is selection.
The verse gives us something to attend to throughout the action of the play, anticipating what rhyme may be coming, and surprising us with twists of language that we may not have been expecting. And this is the realm, beyond translation, of augmenting and adapting the work into something which will captivate the modern English-language audience.