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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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 ...
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 ...