The Scarlet Letter Television Project

FAIN: GN-10551-77

WGBH Educational Foundation (Boston, MA 02135-2016)
Henry Becton (Project Director: September 1977 to present)

To develop a 6-part dramatization of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, to enable American television viewers and students to approach a central work in the American literary tradition and to understand the historical literary and cultural issues which define the book and which relate to a typically American mode of consciousness.