But What Kind of Mystery Play is This? It is about the separation and reuniting of a family, yes, maybe the holy family you might grant, where the women play as in Jesus’ story a major part, but what are we to make of the separation and reuniting of two identical twins?
pervasive atmosphere of religious-like reconciliation throughout his plays. This
recurring theme of reconciliation is part of the
unique magic of Shakespeare’s invention of the human.
The Comedy of Errors
Gray’s Inn
Gray’s Inn, one of four London Lawyer’s Inns, known, collectively, as the ‘third university of England’, after Oxford and Cambridge, during the Christmas Revels of 1594.
Arriving in London in late 1589, young Will Shakespeare stages his first three highly acclaimed English History plays by June 1592, the Black Plague largely closes the City theaters for the next two years.
Largely domiciled in London during this period, Will was hard at work on two long poems,