Antony and Cleopatra? Exhausting. Lear? Magnificent but flawed. Hamlet? Limitless. For Shakespeare’s birthday, the Guardian’s former theatre critic ranks all the plays 35 Denton Chikura and Tonderai ...

In his memorial poem introducing William Shakespeare’s First Folio, Ben Jonson memorably referred to the playwright as the “sweet swan of Avon,” poetically fixing him in the public imagination as a ...

Shakespeare's granddaughter sold his London property in 1665, 49 years after he died Universal History Archive/Getty Historians have pinpointed William Shakespeare's London home to Blackfriars in ...

William Shakespeare was long known to have bought a property somewhere near Blackfriars in the City of London, but the exact location has remained a mystery for over 200 years. But a new discovery has ...

Fans of William Shakespeare – or those who recently watched Hamnet - already know that the famous playwright came from Stratford-upon-Avon. But he made his name in London, though few traces of him ...

The discovery may indicate that Shakespeare spent more time in London in his later years than previously thought The exact location of William Shakespeare's only London property has been pinpointed to ...

The exact location of William Shakespeare's only London property has been pinpointed to a Blackfriars street, after an unknown floorplan was discovered. Shakespeare expert Prof Lucy Munro from King's ...

The exact location of William Shakespeare's "missing" London house has finally been discovered. For hundreds of years, the precise whereabouts of the famous writer's home has remained a mystery.

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In confirming the precise location of William Shakespeare’s Blackfriars house, a British scholar raises fresh questions about what he intended to do with it. By Stephen Castle Stephen Castle reported ...

A chance find in a London archive has allowed a researcher to pinpoint the exact location of William Shakespeare’s London home for the first time. It had long been known that the playwright owned a ...