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New discovery solves mystery of the location of Shakespeare's London house

EuroNews · · 386 words · By David Mouriquand

Professor Lucy Munro of King's College London has identified the exact location and dimensions of a house William Shakespeare purchased in London in 1613. The discovery, based on 17th-century maps and archival documents, suggests the playwright may have spent more time in London during his final years than previously assumed.

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“the famous playwright came from Stratford-upon-Avon”
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Wikipedia and multiple historical web sources confirm William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon.
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web search NEUTRAL — Shakespeare and Stratford. Shakespeare Coat of Arms. How did Shakespeare Die? An Introduction. William Shakespeare was a renowned English poet, playwright, and actor born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avo…
https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/explore-shakespeare/shakesped…
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web search NEUTRAL — The great English dramatist and poet William Shakespeare is born in Stratford-upon-Avon on April 23, 1564—at least, by historians' best reckoning.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/april-23/william…
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web search NEUTRAL — William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.Born. c. 23 April 1564. Stratf…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare
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“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 Shakespeare bought in the city”
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Multiple independent web sources report the discovery of a floorplan/map that pinpoints the exact location of Shakespeare's only London property in Blackfriars.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — William Shakespeare was an actor, playwright, poet, and theatre entrepreneur in London during the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean eras. He was baptised on 26 April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon in W…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_William_Shakespeare
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Shakespeare's plays are a canon of approximately 39 dramatic works written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. The exact number of plays as well as their classifications as tragedy…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare's_plays
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — William Shakespeare (c. 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent drama…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare
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“Shakespeare expert Prof Lucy Munro from King's College London identified the location and size of the property he bought in 1613”
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Web search results explicitly mention Professor Munro identifying the location and size of the property using a 1668 plan found in The London Archives.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2025 New Year Honours are appointments by King Charles III among the 15 Commonwealth realms to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by citizens of those countries. The New…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Ascension Parish Burial Ground, formerly known as the burial ground for the parish of St Giles and St Peter's, is a cemetery off Huntingdon Road in Cambridge, England. Many notable University of C…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascension_Parish_Burial_Ground
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Alumni of King's College London comprise notable graduates as well as non-graduate former, and current, students. Those who studied at institutions later merged with King's College London may be cons…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alumni_of_King's_Colle…
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“She uncovered three documents – two from the London Archives and one from the National Archives”
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While the general discovery is reported, the specific detail about 'three documents' (two from London Archives, one from National Archives) is not explicitly corroborated across multiple independent sources in the provided evidence, though it aligns with the reported research of Prof. Munro.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The International Booker Prize (formerly known as the Man Booker International Prize) is an international literary award hosted in the United Kingdom. The introduction of the International Prize to co…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a list of alumni of Clare College, Cambridge, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a list of Royal Holloway, University of London people, including alumni, members of faculty and fellows.
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“the playwright owned a house in the Blackfriars, a 13th-century Dominican friary”
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Multiple sources confirm Shakespeare purchased lodgings in the Blackfriars gatehouse, and Wikipedia confirms the Blackfriars Theatre was located in a former Dominican priory.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Blackfriars Theatre was the name given to two separate theatres located in the former Blackfriars Dominican priory in the City of London during the Renaissance. The first theatre began as a venue for …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackfriars_Theatre
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — James Burbage (c. 1531 – 2 February 1597) was an English actor, theatre impresario, joiner, and theatre builder in the English Renaissance theatre. He built The Theatre, the first permanent dedicated …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Burbage
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — St Andrew's Hall and Blackfriars' Hall, or The Halls, are a Grade I listed complex of former Dominican priory church and convent buildings in the English city of Norwich, Norfolk. They are the most co…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Andrew's_and_Blackfriars'_H…
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“The property covered what are now the eastern end of Ireland Yard, the bottom of Burgon Street, and parts of the buildings at 5 Burgon Street and 5 St Andrew's Hill”
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The Daily Mail and other web search results specifically list the eastern end of Ireland Yard, the bottom of Burgon Street, and 5 Burgon Street/5 St Andrew's Hill as the property's coverage.
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web search NEUTRAL — The exact location of William Shakespeare's only London property can now be pinpointed to a quiet Blackfriars street, thanks to the discovery of a previously unknown floorplan.
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-shakespeare-london-house-disco…
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web search NEUTRAL — One of those, found by Munro in The London Archives, is a plan of part of the Blackfriars precinct, drawn up in 1668 following the Great Fire of London. The plan confirmed not only the precise locatio…
https://www.jpost.com/history/article-894076
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web search NEUTRAL — The property covered what is now the eastern end of Ireland Yard, the bottom of Burgon Street and parts of the late-nineteenth-century buildings at 5 Burgon Street and 5 St Andrew’s Hill (pictured).
https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-15735117/Shake…
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“the blue plaque for Shakespeare on St Andrew's Hill is... on the spot it used to exist”
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Both BBC News and Euronews explicitly state that the discovery proves the blue plaque on St Andrew's Hill is on the spot the house existed, rather than just 'near' it.
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web search NEUTRAL — William Shakespeare (c. 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent drama…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare
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web search NEUTRAL — Mystery location of Shakespeare's London house uncovered.The discovery means that the blue plaque for Shakespeare on St Andrew's Hill is not "near" the site of his London house, but on the spot it use…
https://www.euronews.com/culture/2026/04/16/new-discovery-so…
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web search NEUTRAL — From famous painters to poets and revolutionaries, can you guess the names of the people commemorated in these English Heritage blue plaques?
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/mar/15/blue-plaque-q…
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“The other two documents relate to the sale of the Blackfriars property by Shakespeare's granddaughter in 1665”
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Multiple web search results mention that the other documents relate to the sale of the property by Shakespeare's granddaughter in 1665.
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web search NEUTRAL — Fans of William Shakespeare – or those who recently watched Hamnet - already know that the famous playwright came from Stratford-upon-Avon.The other two documents relate to the sale of the Blackfriars…
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/discovery-solves-mystery…
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web search NEUTRAL — William Shakespeare (c. 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent drama…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare
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web search NEUTRAL — The exact location of William Shakespeare's only London property can now be pinpointed to a quiet Blackfriars street, thanks to the discovery of a previously unknown floorplan.
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-shakespeare-london-house-disco…
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““Henry VIII” and “The Two Noble Kinsmen,” both co-written with John Fletcher”
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“Shakespeare used the profits of his plays to build a family house, now demolished, in Stratford”
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“He died there in 1616 at the age of 52”
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