"I was doing research as part of a wider project and couldn't believe it when I realised what I was looking at - the floorplan of Shakespeare's Blackfriars house. It had been assumed that there wasn't much more evidence to gather about it, so research on it has laid dormant for a while."
"These findings really help us tell the complete story of Shakespeare's Blackfriars house, and thanks to this new discovery we now know exactly where it stood."
"One of the documents was a plan of part of the Blackfriars precinct, drawn up in 1668, two years after the Great Fire of London, which confirmed the precise location and size of Shakespeare's Blackfriars house."
The location of William Shakespeare's only London property has been pinpointed to a street in Blackfriars, following the discovery of an unknown floorplan. This finding suggests that Shakespeare may have spent more time in London than previously believed, contradicting the notion that he quickly returned to Stratford-upon-Avon after purchasing the house in 1613. The blue plaque on St Andrew's Hill is now recognized as being on the actual site of his former residence, which was part of a significant Dominican friary.
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