 He suggests that if the Induction is removed from a production of the play (as it very often is), a fundamental part of the structure has been lost.Speaking of Jonathan Miller's "BBC Television Shakespeare" adaptation of 1980, which omitted the Induction, Stanley Wells wrote "to omit the Christopher Sly episodes is to suppress one of Shakespeare's most volatile lesser characters, to jettison most of the play's best poetry, and to strip it of an entire dramatic dimension.