A historian believes he has solved the riddle of why the Bard appeared to know so much about continental Europe.
A historian has worked out where William Shakespeare lived when he was working on some of his best loved plays.
Geoffrey Marsh, the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum's department of theatre and performance, has combed the archives of Elizabethan London and concluded Shakespeare lived yards from Liverpool Street. It was his neighbours in the Bishopsgate area of the City of London who influenced many of the Bard's character, Mr Marsh has told The Daily Telegraph.
It has long been thought that Shakespeare lived in central London but the precise location was unknown. Among the plays that he wrote while he lived there were Romeo And Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant Of Venice, and Richard II.Mr Marsh suggests that the witches in Macbeth, the story of the music in As You Like It and some of the lines from King Lear may have been inspired by the people living nearby.
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