The Winter's Tale play contains one of the most famous 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, or an actor in bear costume. The Royal Shakespeare Company, in one production of this play, used a large sheet of silk which moved and created shapes, to symbolise both the bear and the gale in which Antigonus is travelling. One comic moment in the play deals with a servant not realising that poetry featuring references to dildos is vulgar, presumably from not knowing what
Build-A-Bear Workshop and play with access to most of the game's features, even if they had not purchased a product from a Build-A-Bear Workshop. January 2015, users received an email from the company stating that the virtual world will close on March 31st, 2015 it will be no longer playable after that time.It was replaced by the kids' site "Bearville Alive!", containing a web series featuring Build-a-Bear characters. Bearville former users were very upset by the news and some even went to the extent of making petitions to bring it back. So far, nothing has changed the decision of the Build-A-Bear staff