The idea for this episode is not the most original, bring a famous writer from the past and watch him (or her) get indignant over how modern times butchers his (or her) works. Bob Newhart did this with a sketch about what a Madison Avenue type would do to the Gettysburg Address ("Abe, you have to change 'four score and seven' to eighty seven"). However, it is well acted, with Jack Weston and John Williams as the hack TV writer and William Shakespeare respectively. Two story lines are the inanity of most TV writing and the unholy alliance between production and advertisers. Since this episode aired in 1963, two years after Newton Minnow's "vast wasteland" speech, it seems to show Rod Serling's take on that subject.
Review of The Bard
