Article January 5, 1957 Issue

THE MAKE-BELIEVE AND THE REALITY

HARRY E. DE LASAUX

In Shakespeare's play "As You Like It" a group of exiles, hiding in a forest, ponder the strange fortunes of mortal existence. One of the characters, musing, speaks an eloquent and profound soliloquy:

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts.

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