Before Game of Thrones, there was The Lion in Winter.

Christmas, 1183. England’s most formidable royal family gathers for the holidays

—and everyone wants the crown.

Wickedly funny, deliciously treacherous, and wildly entertaining, James Goldman’s

modern classic is a dazzling battle of wits in which alliances shift, every embrace

masks a scheme, and every declaration of love is a bid for power.