Sorry, Alan Scott. I wasn’t clear. You are correct; there are few if any rhymes in Shakespeare’s original, « Measure for Measure, » and the verse is very dense if I remember, with a lot of feminine endings.
No. What I meant was that the script for « Desperate Measures, » this new musical about a novitiate, a bawd, a sheriff, and gunslingers in the Old Western US...this musical’s script (libretto, shall I say) is, charmingly, in iambic pentameter with most if not all of it in rhyming couplets. Really. And really fun. |
