While conducting research in the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Library, a scholar discovered something remarkable: a handwritten copy of a sonnet by William Shakespeare dating back nearly 400 years.

A rare hand-written copy of one of the most famous love poems ever written has been discovered after hundreds of years. Dr Leah Veronese uncovered the version of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 ...

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 ...

"In the context of Ashmole's collection, Lawes' setting of Sonnet 116 reads as a political love-song in praise of Royalist political constancy during political turmoil," she writes in her study ...

So even if love, at least in “Sonnet 116,” is “an ever-fixèd mark,” the author himself is not. That, it seems, has always been his power, from the Royalist gatherings of 1600s Britain to ...

The added lines potentially transform the sonnet from a meditation on romantic love into a powerful political ... A New Copy of Shakespeare's Sonnet 116: A Cavalier Cover Version, Review of ...

Dr Leah Veronese from the English Faculty has unearthed a rare manuscript copy of Shakespeare’s famous Sonnet 116 tucked away in ... as "on constancy in love" – but it doesn’t mention ...

A rare hand-written copy of one of the most famous love poems ever written has been discovered after hundreds of years. Dr Leah Veronese uncovered the version of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 ...