"The Shakespeare Reader and Other Christmas Tales" is a romp through Shakespeare with holiday settings, but don't expect to guess how the three stories end. "The Dark Ride" follows the wife of a retired high school English teacher who tries to make a go of a Shakespeare-themed amusement park in rural New Hampshire. "Enter Friar Stage Left" is a contemporary re-telling of Romeo and Juliet, (youth group caroling party to twelfth night) from the clergy perspective. "The Shakespeare Reader" introduces Ben, who fancies himself a sleuth based on how he recognizes the Shakespeare plots underlying the comings and goings of his Harvard Square neighbors.