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William Shakespeare’s long-lost London house has been located in Blackfriars, thanks to English professor Lucy Munro, who discovered its floor plan among documents from the London Archives and the National Archives.
Shakespeare expert Lucy Munro, of King’s College London, identified the location and size of the property the Bard bought in 1613, three years before his death, the BBC reported. Munro told The Associated Press that the document supplies “extra bits of the jigsaw puzzle” of Shakespeare’s life.