A rare manuscript version of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116, discovered by Dr. Leah Veronese, reveals how the poem was politically ...

University of Oxford 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 ...

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 ...

The sonnet sits among politically charged ... Not only does this text provide us with a new example of how Shakespeare was being read during the civil war, but also how his texts were being ...

Shakespearean sonnets end in two lines that rhyme with ... The Trick by Imtiaz Dharker is an example of a modern sonnet that uses some ‘run on lines’. Sometimes the only way to spot a modern ...

A rare handwritten copy of William Shakespeare's famous Sonnet 116 was found at Oxford's Bodleian Library, marking only the second known manuscript of the poem. Dr. Leah Veronese, an English ...