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June 2, 2020 | In the mid-sixteenth-century genre of the morality play the interludes featured personified abstract nouns as their characters, divided into good and evil. These productions would have toured the country, teaching Protestant morality to the general population. These plays used verse form in a striking way: frequently in these dramas, good characters speak in one rhyme scheme, and bad in another. Verse form was therefore a way of signalling to the audience which characters were the elect and which the damned. Poet and doctoral student Molly Clark examined these conventions and the ways in which they were manipulated before turning to Shakespeare, who grew up with morality plays and imbibed their dramaturgy. The discussion, moderated by Professor Michael Scott, considered the ways in which Shakespeare himself played with the idea of verse form as moral indicator.