According to professor Lucy Munro at Kings College, London, William Shakespeare had a property in Blackfriars. The house today would straddle Ireland Yard, Burgeon Street and St Andrew’s Hill. This was a cosmopolitan area at the time with all manner of different people from across London and the continent. Moreover it was close to his place of work at the Blackfriars Theatre. In addition the property was close to the Cockpit tavern - which has stood on the same site for many years. Perhaps Shakespeare drank there with colleagues from the theatre? It brings to life a much discussed period in his later life and what his plans were? I’m reading a brilliant book at the moment by the Shakespeare scholar at Oxford - professor Sir Jonathan Bate, Mad about Shakespeare - this new information only adds to the endless speculation about our greatest writer.
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