Perdita's Fardel


 * "...The heavens so dim by day. A savage clamour!—
 * Well may I get aboard!—This is the chace:
 * I am gone for ever."

[Exit, pursued by a bear.]

-The Winters Tale (act 3, scene 3) ==Origin== The Winters Tale is a problem play written by William Shakespeare. A problem play is a play that have both elements of Tragedy and Comedy. This play is famous for a certain stage direction "Exit, Pursued by a bear". In this scene Antigonus is tasked to abandoned Perdita the daughter of the King of Sicillia. The King is convinced that the baby is a bastard farthered by his own best friend, The King of Bohemia. When antigonus abandoned the baby on a beach a bear suddenly appeared and killed antigonus. Perdita is saved by a passing sheperd and a clown.