…the questions we have to ask are these. Does art, as Shakespeare says, hold up the mirror to nature? Or does nature, as Wilder suggested, often hold up the mirror to art? In other words, does society follow the artist as much as it molds him? On…

…very recently had in New York, two plays which I happened to 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…