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
Exit...Stage Left quality. In subsequent years however, Lee developed a more critical view of "Exit...Stage Left", noting that the group tried to make it sound "too perfect" in part by reducing the levels of audience noise, while Lifeson for his part thought the album sounded too clean and not as raw as "All the World's a Stage", and as a consequence the band aimed to reach a "middle ground" between the two with "A Show of Hands", Rush's third live release. Nevertheless, the album remains a fan favorite. Rush performs a short rendition of "Ebb Tide" before "Jacob's Ladder". "Broon's Bane" is