The Winter's Tale to him in a dream and bade him name the girl Perdita. He leaves a fardel (a bundle) by the baby containing gold and other trinkets which suggest that the baby is of noble blood. A violent storm suddenly appears, wrecking the ship on which Antigonus arrived. He wishes to take pity on the child, but is chased away in one of Shakespeare's most famous stage directions: "Exit, pursued by a bear." (It is not known whether Shakespeare used a real bear from the London bear-pits, or an actor in bear costume.) Perdita is rescued by a shepherd and his
Exit Ghost results. The older Zuckerman, though not pleased, was more philosophical and was able to place the results into a more historical context. The stage direction, "exit ghost" appears in three of William Shakespeare's plays: "Hamlet", "Macbeth" and "Julius Caesar". In a BBC interview, Roth stated that using this direction as a title "came to me because of "Macbeth". Last year in the summer I was going to see a production of "Macbeth" here in America, and I re-read the script that afternoon, and I came upon the Banquo scene, ghost scene, and it just leaped out — 'exit ghost' —