Recent work at St George’s Guildhall in King’s Lynn has exposed part of the original early fifteenth century timber floor dating from the construction of the Guildhall in 1417-30. This is in itself a noteworthy survival, but it may well have been trod by Shakespeare and other members of the Earl of Pembroke’s Men when plague closed the theatres and drove them out of London in 1592 and 1593. Their refuge was to be found playing in King’s Lynn.
The BBC News website reports on the floor and the evidence for Shakespeare, then in his late twenties, in north west Norfolk with his acting companions in Shakespeare's stage found, claims Norfolk theatre
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