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 ...
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 forgotten copy of Shakespeare’s famous Sonnet 116 was found tucked away in a 17th-century manuscript in the Oxford Library.
Perhaps, the variation is a sign of what may be Shakespeare’s greatest constant: change. So even if love, at least in “Sonnet 116,” is “an ever-fixèd mark,” the author himself is not.
While flipping through 17th-century manuscripts at the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries, researcher Leah Veronese ...
This is only the second known manuscript copy of the sonnet ever discovered ... as 'on constancy in love'—but it doesn't mention Shakespeare. I think the combination of the additional first ...