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,
Nelson on the set for CSF s Much Ado About Nothing
As a theatre and English double major, Tamarra Nelson (BA ’18) discovered her passion for directing at the University of Denver. Now, Nelson works as the tour manager with the Shakespeare and Violence Prevention Program, a subsection of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival (CSF) Education Department.
In this program, actors travel to schools, perform plays and facilitate workshops based on up-to-date violence-prevention research.
“It’s centered around this idea of leaving behind a bystander identity and becoming an upstander. We teach kids that if they see a situation where a peer is getting bullied, they can step in to prevent harm rather than just being bystanders and watching it happen,” says Nelson.