Shakespeare Bought One Property in London. Now We Know Exactly Where
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New discovery solves mystery of the location of Shakespeare’s London house - WXXV News 25
By JILL LAWLESS LONDON (AP) — Fans of William Shakespeare know that the great playwright came from Stratford-upon-Avon, the riverside English town where tourists still throng to see his childhood home. But he made his name in London — though few traces of him remain in the British capital. A newly discovered 17th-century map sheds new light on the Bard’s London life, pinpointing for the first time the exact location of the only home Shakespear…
A fortuitous discovery in a London archive allowed a researcher to identify, for the first time, the exact location of William Shakespeare's house in London. It was known long ago that the playwright owned a house in Blackfriars, a 13th century Dominican convent, and it was believed that it was located near the gate. But the new discovery means that we now know its exact location, size and plant, as well as what kind of buildings would have surr…
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