Professor Lucy Munro pinpoints Shakespeare's missing London home

11 articles · Updated · Fox News · May 2

She placed it in Blackfriars near the Thames, covering present-day Ireland Yard and parts of Burgon Street around 5 St Andrew's Hill.
Munro said a continuous paper trail from 1613 to 1667, including deeds, leases and a post-Great Fire map, supports the identification and suggests Shakespeare may have planned to live there.
The find challenges the view that Shakespeare largely retired to Stratford after 1613, as the substantial house stood within a five-minute walk of the Blackfriars playhouse where he was still working.

How does confirming the exact site of Shakespeare’s London home reshape our view of his retirement and ongoing ties to the city?

Could Shakespeare have written parts of his final plays in the Blackfriars house, and what new clues might future research uncover there?