The Winter's Tale (1910 film) who had years of experience as a still and motion picture photographer. The role of the cameraman was uncredited in 1910 productions. The Thanhouser adaption notably foregoes the famous Shakespearean stage directions: "Exit, pursued by a bear." and allows Antigonus a peaceful exit. Another difference in the production is that following the collapse and reported death of Hermione. In the play, the audience is aligns with Leontes' view and gives no reason to doubt Hermione's death, but the Thanhouser adaptation shows the mechanism and conspiracy formed by showing Hermione's revival and departure. Instead of using the Shakespeare character of Time
Exit the King plays, the stage is filled with more and more objects or characters; in "Rhinoceros", for example, there are gradually more and more rhinoceroses. In this play, however, the kingdom and all the characters slowly disappear. Likewise, the language is generally more straight forward and comprehensible, eschewing Ionesco’s tendency toward abundant clichés and nonsense. Ionesco told Claude Bonnefoy in a 1966 interview that "Exit the King" did not "originate in a dream" as many of his plays did, but was "much more consciously composed. People immediately said: 'Oh! He’s given up the avant-garde, he’s turning classical!' It wasn’t a question of