…see there. One play was a revival of Our Town by Thornton Wilder, and the other was the production of a new play by Tennessee Williams called Sweet Bird of Youth. Now, the question arose in my mind, to what extent And in what way can it be said that…

…have neither read nor seen the other play, The Sweet Bird of Youth, which I will briefly describe. It was the third play of Tennessee Williams, which I have seen within the last year or so. In the first two, the In the first of the two plays that I…

…literature, a celibacy of the passions, a celibacy of the instinct. If one goes to see plays, for example, by Tennessee Williams, a dramatist whom I greatly admire, enormous talent, but here one sees an almost complete celibacy of the passions, that…