New Map Reveals Shakespeare's London Home
FansofWilliamShakespeareknowthatthegreatplaywrightcamefromStratford-upon-Avon.
威廉莎士比亞的粉絲都知道，這位偉大的劇作家來自埃文河畔斯特拉特福。
HemadehisnameinLondon, thoughfewtracesofhimremainintheBritishcapital.
他在倫敦成名，但如今在英國首都卻幾乎找不到他的蹤跡。
Anewlydiscovered17th-centurymapshedsnewlightontheBard’sLondonlife.
一幅新發現的 17 世紀地圖為莎士比亞的倫敦生活提供了新的線索。
ItpinpointsforthefirsttimetheexactlocationoftheonlyhomeShakespeareboughtinthecity.
它首次精確地指出了莎士比亞在城裡購買的唯一房產的確切位置。
Thishomeiswherehemayhaveworkedonhisfinalplays.
這棟房子可能是他創作最後幾部劇作的地方。
ShakespearescholarLucyMunrofoundthedocument.
莎士比亞學者露西·門羅發現了這份文件。
Shesaidthatitsupplies'extrabitsofthejigsawpuzzle'ofShakespeare’slife.
她說，這為莎士比亞的一生提供了「額外的拼圖碎片」。
Itwaspartlyduetoluckthatthedocumentwasfound.
這份文件的發現，部分原因在於運氣。
MunrofounditintheLondonArchiveswhilelookingforotherthings.
門羅在倫敦檔案館尋找其他東西時發現了它。
HistorianshavelongknownthatShakespeareboughtpropertyin 1613neartheBlackfriarsTheatre.
歷史學家早就知道，莎士比亞於 1613 年在黑衣修士劇院附近購買了房產。
Theexactlocationwasamysteryuntilnow.
確切地點先前一直是個謎。
Aplaqueona19th-centurybuildingonlynotesthattheplaywrighthadlodgings'nearthissite.'
19 世紀建築上的一塊牌匾只提到，這位劇作家曾在「此地附近」居住過。
AplanoftheBlackfriarsprecinctfoundbyMunroshowsShakespeare’shouseindetail.
門羅發現的黑衣修士區平面圖詳細顯示了莎士比亞故居的位置。
ItwasasubstantialL-shapeddwellingcarvedfromaformermedievalmonastery.
這是一棟規模宏大的L形住宅，由一座中世紀修道院改建而成。
Theplanincludesitsgatehouse.
該方案包括門樓。
Fans of William Shakespeare know that the great playwright came from Stratford-upon-Avon.
He made his name in London, though few traces of him remain in the British capital.
A newly discovered 17th-century map sheds new light on the Bard’s London life.
It pinpoints for the first time the exact location of the only home Shakespeare bought in the city.
This home is where he may have worked on his final plays.
Shakespeare scholar Lucy Munro found the document.
She said that it supplies 'extra bits of the jigsaw puzzle' of Shakespeare’s life.
It was partly due to luck that the document was found.
Munro found it in the London Archives while looking for other things.
Historians have long known that Shakespeare bought property in 1613 near the Blackfriars Theatre.
The exact location was a mystery until now.
A plaque on a 19th-century building only notes that the playwright had lodgings 'near this site.'
A plan of the Blackfriars precinct found by Munro shows Shakespeare’s house in detail.
It was a substantial L-shaped dwelling carved from a former medieval monastery.
The plan includes its gatehouse.
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