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This summary contains a list of characters, a quick plot overview, some general information about the play and a scene-by-scene summary of Shakespeare's The Winter’s Tale. It also contains a summary of the article 'Good Queen, My Lord, Good Queen: Sexual Slander and the Trials of Female Authority in The Winter’s Tale', which discusses female crimes, queen Elizabeth, defamation laws, the play is history and slander. This summary also contains lecture notes about the thorny style, adultery, He...

Short summary of some of the main characters from The Winter's Tale.