WHERE DID SHAKESPEARE LIVE IN LONDON?
• Given his friendship with Richard Field it would seem reasonable that Shakespeare would have taken lodgings near his friend, in Blackfriars, when he first moved to London • Richard Field became very successful and would have been acquainted with the notable Poets and Authors in London through his Printing and Publishing business – and no doubt would have introduced Shakespeare to some of them! His brother, Jasper Field, joined Richard as an apprentice in 1592 • In 1593 Shakespeare lived in Bishopsgate ( we know this because there are court records dated 1597 saying that he owed taxes here) • In 1596 he was living in the parish of St Helen’s in Bishopsgate • 1599 he had moved across the river to Bankside on property owned by the of the Bishop of Winchester’s estate, the Liberty of the Clink, where the Globe Theatre was also built • 1604 Shakespeare is known to have moved back to the city and rented lodgings at the house of Christopher and Mary Mountjoy in on the corner of Monkwell and
