A 1642 will that bequeathed William Shakespeare’s home to someone entirely unrelated to him that caused much courtroom drama has been rediscovered in the U.K.’s National Archives. Legal records specialist Dan Gosling found the will in a box of unlabeled chancery court documents dating from the 17th century and earlier. It was first described by a Shakespeare scholar in the mid-19th century. He had discovered it in the Rolls Chapel, the repository of the Court of Chancery’s document reco...
