One more for prose...

George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham is also pro-prose:

• Let’s have, at least, once in our lives, a time/When we may hear some reasen, not all Rhyme:/We have these ten years felt it’s Influence;/Pray let this prove a year of Prose and Sence.

Yet, his play The Rehearsal is a mismash of all sorts of awfully rhymed couplets and verse. And why not? He's mocking the pompous John Dryden, the one guy we still read in undergrad classes today. If only Buckingham wrote more in verse. . .

I ought to keep a tally of everyone that's for prose versus rhyme. I'm pretty sure the pro-prosers are winning this game.

On the whole, The Rehearsal would be a great play to re-adapt for a modern audience. It would simply take someone bold enough to make fun of a contemporary film or tv director. . . We could take jabs at Martin Scorsese awful editing or Oliver Stone's heavy handedness. Take that!