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Shakespeare’s plays possibly inspired by London neighbours

Bard thought to have lived near Liverpool Street, next to doctors, merchants and artists
William Shakespeare’s influential neighbours had spent time overseas, a theatre historian has said. Photograph: Getty Images

Some of William Shakespeare’s most famous plays may have been inspired by his elite neighbours, according to a theatre historian who has spent a decade trying to pinpoint the Bard’s address.

Geoffrey Marsh, the director of the V&A’s department of theatre and performance, spent 10 years researching the exact location

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