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
The Bear (play) "The Bear". The main similarity between the two involves the idea of the male being a 'bear' tamed by a woman. "Les Jurons de Cadillac" was originally performed by the actor Nikolai Solovstov, whom Chekhov dedicates "The Bear" to and ultimately plays the role of Smirnov. It had its first English language premiere in London in 1911. The United States premiere was in New York in 1915. In 1935, Russian theatre producer and director Vsevolod Meyerhold produced "33 Swoons" (also translated as "33 Fainting Fits"), which was a production that combined Chekhov's "The Anniversary", "The Bear", and "The Proposal". Meyerhold