- “For decades, guides have directed countless tourists to a red-roofed, beamed cottage near Shakespeare’s birthplace at Stratford-on-Avon to pay homage at the place where his mother, Mary Arden, was thought to have been born in the early 16th century. Now it has emerged from new research that she was not born there at all, but in a house some 30 yards down the road in the same village.” – New York Times
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