LENOX – Published in the First Folio of 1623, William Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale ” is a play about love, trust, friendship, jealousy, contrition, forgiveness and redemption. The dark undercurrents of its early portions poised against the sunny, reassuring, comedic tones of its later sections have caused “The Winter's Tale” to be labeled a “problem” play. What: “The Winter's Tale” by William Shakespeare.

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