Spotlight - Locating Shakespeare's £140 London Flat
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“The precise location of the house that Shakespeare bought in London has been discovered thanks to evidence unearthed by British academic Professor Lucy Munro, who’s pinpointed the exact location and layout of a property Shakespeare bought for 140£ back in 1613 - three years before he died.”
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Multiple web search results attribute the discovery of the location and layout of a property Shakespeare bought in 1613 to Professor Lucy Munro from King's College London. This information is reported across multiple search snippets, indicating corroboration from independent reporting on the topic.
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— The Arden Shakespeare is a long-running series of scholarly editions of the works of William Shakespeare. It presents fully edited modern-spelling editions of the plays and poems, with lengthy introdu…
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— Walter Charles Dance OBE (born 10 October 1946) is an English actor. He is known for playing intimidating, authoritarian characters and villains. Dance started his career on stage with the Royal Shake…
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— The following is a list of Royal Holloway, University of London people, including alumni, members of faculty and fellows.
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“It was known he owned a house in Blackfriars, but never exactly where, with the assumption that Shakespeare was living out his final years in Stratford, which he still may have done, although still writing plays in 1613, with the tenant he appears to have letted the property to.”
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Multiple web search results confirm that while Shakespeare owned a property in Blackfriars and that his later years are debated between London and Stratford-upon-Avon, the discovery paints a picture of his later London years. The sources repeatedly mention the Blackfriars house and the debate regarding his final years.
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— 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…
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— The Shakespeare authorship question is the argument that someone other than William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon wrote the works attributed to him. Anti-Stratfordians—a collective term for adher…
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— 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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