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 ...

"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 ...

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,” Veronese writes in ...

An Oxford researcher found a rare, handwritten variation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous love poems ... the good fortune of encountering “Sonnet 116” by William Shakespeare, you were ...

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 ...

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 ...