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Exit, pursued by a bear! 'Exit, Pursued By A Bear' is generally considered to be the most famous of Shakespeare's stage directions - leading up to the off stage death of Antigonus in The Winter's Tale. And so Dr Who and BroadChurch star David Tennant's days...
Jan 29, 2016 · 29 January 2016. 3 minute read. Perhaps one of the most famous, or infamous of Shakespeare’s stage directions, ‘Exit, pursued by a bear’ in Act III of The Winter’s Tale, sees Antigonus meet death in the most unlikely of ways: at the hands – or rather the claws – of a bear. Unsurprisingly this stage direction frequently mystifies modern readers.
The play contains the most famous of Shakespearean stage directions: Exit, pursued by a bear, presaging the offstage death of Antigonus. It is not known whether Shakespeare used a real bear from the London bear-pits [25] or an actor in bear costume.
[Exit, pursued by a bear] [Enter a Shepherd] Shepherd: I would there were no age between sixteen and: three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the: 65: rest; for there is nothing in the between but: getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting--Hark you now! Would any but: these boiled brains of nineteen and two ...
Nov 1, 2018 · “ Exit, pursued by a bear. ” Probably the most famous Shakespearean stage direction of all time, at once hilarious and perplexing to modern audiences because it seems to appear without warning. Like the unfortunate Antigonus, we, too, are surprised by the bear’s sudden materialization (and even more sudden exit) pursuing a hapless man.
Blossom, speed thee well! There lie, and there thy character: there these; Which may, if fortune please, both breed thee, pretty, And still rest thine. The storm begins; poor wretch, 55 That for thy mother’s fault art thus exposed. To loss and what may follow! Weep I cannot, But my heart bleeds; and most accursed am I.
Aug 5, 2017 · The Winter’s Tale has, arguably, the most famous stage direction in history: “Exit, pursued by a bear.” Now, I wasn’t around in Shakespeare’s day, but legend has it that bear-baiting bears were used, or possibly a man in one of the deceased bear-baiting animal skins.
