What is so mysterious about shakespeare?

Thousands of books, websites., television documentaries..s So much has been written and said about William Shakespeare!. What makes him so mysterious?. No way, it can be a mystery about him. I t seems that everything has been said and explained about his life, and "his" works...

And this website  though , is about London locations  of his life and work and about some London settings of his plays.

So that title... "Mysterious..." might be only a device to capture your attention!. A trick. Sorry.

Read on, though.

SO...?

Well, mysterious in one sense. Let me explain.

I am going to take  you on a walk, or a cycle ride around most of the places connected with W.S. in London.

How and where can we locate Shakespeare  in modern London more than 400 years, a Great Fire and a Blitz after he left London for Stratford-Upon-Avon?.

For sure, very little remains from his time and even when we will find ourselves on the terrain of his life, usually this is unrecognisable. His Silver Street lodgings where in the middle a modern  street, London Wall.

Yet there are buildings and institutions that Shakespeare would recognise, places that he visited... Definitely we will be entering the same air spaces as Shakespeare did  400 years ago!.

But add to that, that in fact we don't know much about the actual Shakespeare life in London. Only two addresses. And it turns out that he was a mere lodger. A lodger?, someone of his status?

And we will find out that two murders occurred those first years of his life in London, around his presumed living quarters, in Elizabethan "Theatreland"...

 

Now, after hours of researching about "Shakespeare in London" I discovered that a few, let's say, enigmas, remain about Shakespeare. His existence is not as clear-cut as school books explain to us. 

There you are!. Lots has been said  about Shakespeare, but lots has not been said aloud enough (why?) to grab the attention of a wider public (the most of us) and to give a more rounded up account of his life and personality...

I will try to uncover to you those little  secrets!