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AT COMMERCIAL TV Why have attitudes changed? low the story in the “foreign lan¬ guage” of Elizabethan English; to expect them to derive pleasure from the subtleties of character and motive is impossibly remote— until they can see the play. I shall never forget the difference that Maurice Evans and “The Hallmark Hall of Fame” made in my teaching of Macbeth to high school seniors The year before the telecast I had to spend considerable time trying to indicate simply what happened; the Evans production enabled me to proceed at once to a discussion of the play as a work of art. TV drama in general has an enormous potential for teaching literature. For everybody can now be a first-nighter. TV has destroy¬ ed the dramatic hinterland. Main Street, actually Side-Street, USA., has become the Great White Way. Sensing this trend, Scholastic Mag¬ azine began two years ago to print a weekly schedule of TV programs with educational value. Last year, Scholastic Teacher, a teachers’ pro¬ fessional magazine, started a series of “Teleguides,” which give a teacher enough information about a drama or a documentary to en¬ able him to assign it for class credit. “Cyrano,” “The Devil’s Disciple,” “The Corn is Green,” and “The Taming of the Shrew” were among the choices. • LAST MARCH, The English Journal, NCTE magazine for high- school teachers, revealed its aware¬ ness of the potential of commercial TV by printing a study guide for Olivier’s Richard III, prepared by Frank and Audrey Hodgins of the English Department at the Uni¬ versity of Maryland. Teacher re¬ sponse to this was so good that the j Journal has started a regular monthly feature, “The Public Arts,” idesigned to help English teachers make the most of the mass media whenever their content is relevant. A study-guide for Shaw’s Man and Superman (Hallmark, Nov¬ ember 25) appeared in a November issue. Plans are under way for a “Shaw Festival” to be held in the nation’s literature classrooms the week before the telecast. This would be a kind of “educational spectacular” dramatizing the im- FEBRUARY 1957 11