Exit The King (A play)

1963 Grove Press. First Edition. Hardcover, 95 pages. Exit the king is a highly stylized, ritualistic death rite, in which a once great king, Berenger I, is shown during his last hours of life, surrounded by his two wives, his physician, and a few other members of the decayed court. The setting is the king's throne room, in which all the action takes place. But perhaps action is too strong a word: for what we are given is the slow, ceremonial movement of the wasting Berenger towards his death....