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‘Politically Repurposed’ Copy of Famous Shakespearean Love Sonnet Discovered Inside a 17th-Century Poetry Collection
The rare handwritten copy of "Sonnet 116" features several additional lines, which may have been an attempt to insert British ...
Hand-written version of Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 discovered in 17th-century manuscript
Researchers said the added lines "potentially transform" the sonnet from "a meditation on romantic love into a powerful ...
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Man Accidentally Finds Rare Manuscript of Shakespeare’s Sonnet Hidden in a Poetry Collection of a Library
Man Accidentally Finds Rare Manuscript of Shakespeare’s Sonnet Hidden in a Poetry Collection of a Library Literary history ...
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A handwritten copy of Shakespeare’s famous sonnet has been discovered in a 17th-century manuscript
A rare original handwritten copy of Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 has re-emerged in a 17th-century manuscript. The text, which is very different from the usual version, sheds more light on the political ...
Not Time’s Fool: A Rare Version of a Shakespeare Sonnet Is Discovered
An Oxford researcher found a rare, handwritten variation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous love poems. About 400 years ago, ...
Rare Handwritten Copy of Famous Shakespeare Sonnet Found in Oxford Library
The recently discovered copy of Sonnet 116 "reads as a political love song" during England's Civil Wars, according to the ...
Rare copy of famous Shakespeare love poem found
A rare hand-written copy of one of the most famous love poems ever written has been discovered after hundreds of years. Dr ...
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Forgotten Copy of Shakespeare’s Most Famous Sonnet Unearthed in Oxford Library
William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 remains one of the best-known poems on love in the English language, its steely reverence for marital commitment long making it a wedding favorite. It is not a ...
Quote of the Day: Sonnet’s Ever-Fixèd Mark Did, Perchance, Move
AMES SHAPIRO, a Columbia University professor who is a William Shakespeare expert, on the finding of a variation of “Sonnet 116” that may have been in support of royalists trying to maintain England’s ...
A rare version of a famous Shakespeare sonnet is discovered
If you have already had the good fortune of encountering “Sonnet 116” by William Shakespeare, you were probably at a wedding.
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Researcher uncovers hidden copy of Shakespeare sonnet
Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A rare manuscript copy of Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 was discovered in a 17th-century poetry collection among Elias Ashmole's papers. This version, adapted as a ...
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Rare Handwritten Shakespeare Sonnet Found in Oxford Library
A rare handwritten copy of Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 has been found in Oxford University’s Bodleian Library. The copy of a ...