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Feb 06, 2009

Seasons Change In Folger’s A Winter’s Tale

Never is the contrast between comedy and tragedy so pronounced in Shakespeare as with The Winter’s Tale. Once the dancing and colorful costumes come out during Act 2, we’re in for a whole new play than the brooding, horrifying first half would lead us to believe. After all, we’ve just seen a king develop a seemingly out-of-nowhere obsession that his wife is cheating on him, and then take drastic measures to punish her for…

 
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