The Secret of Shakespeare’s London House ~ The Imaginative Conservative

The Secret of Shakespeare’s London House ~ The Imaginative Conservative

It’s always exciting whenever a missing piece of the puzzle of William Shakespeare’s life comes to light. One such piece was discovered recently in a London archive by Lucy Munro, Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at King’s College London. In doing research on the location of London playhouses, Dr. Munro stumbled upon a plan of the Blackfriars area in 1668 which confirms the exact location of the Blackfriars Gatehouse, which S…

New discovery solves Shakespeare's London house location mystery

LONDON — 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-cent