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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Dalya Alberge

US playwright donates £1m to save home of Shakespeare’s daughter

The outside of Hall's Croft a timber-framed Jacobean house with a gable roof.
Hall's Croft in Stratford-upon-Avon, where Shakespeare’s daughter Susanna lived. Photograph: Julia Nottingham/Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

The charity that cares for historic Shakespeare sites in Stratford-upon-Avon has received an unprecedented donation of £1m from the Olivier award-winning US playwright Ken Ludwig.

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (SBT) can now pay for crucial conservation work on Hall’s Croft, the home of Shakespeare’s daughter Susanna and her physician husband, John Hall, who is believed to have advised his father-in-law on medical matters.

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