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Fans of William Shakespeare know that the great playwright came from Stratford-upon-Avon, the English riverside town where tourists still throng to see his childhood home.<\/p>\n
But he made his name in London \u2013 though few traces of him remain in the British capital.<\/p>\n
A newly discovered 17th century map sheds new light on the Bard\u2019s London life, pinpointing for the first time the exact location of the only home Shakespeare bought in the city, and where he may have worked on his final plays.<\/p>\n
Shakespeare scholar Lucy Munro, who found the document, says that it supplies \u201cextra bits of the jigsaw puzzle\u201d of Shakespeare\u2019s life. And as with so many discoveries, it was partly due to luck.<\/p>\n
\u201cI came across it in The London Archives when I was looking for other things,\u201d Munro says.<\/p>\n
Historians have long known that Shakespeare bought property in 1613 near the Blackfriars Theatre, but the exact location was a mystery. A plaque on a 19th century building records only that the playwright had lodgings \u201cnear this site\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n