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 ...

A forgotten copy of Shakespeare's famous Sonnet 116 was found tucked away in a 17th-century manuscript in the Oxford Library. It was hidden among the papers of Elias Ashmole, founder of the ...

The works of William Shakespeare (1564-1616) are a neverending fount of surprises, even more than 400 years after his death .

including its contents), “the poem was described, not inaccurately, as ‘on constancy in love’ – but it doesn’t mention Shakespeare.” When an individual named William Henry Black ...

Shakespeare compares his beloved to a ... And so live ever-or else swoon to death. This poem is in the public domain. Keats expresses his longing for eternal love and stability, wishing to be ...

An Oxford researcher found a rare, handwritten variation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous love poems. About 400 years ago, its meaning might have been very different. By Amelia Nierenberg ...

Seven years after Shakespeare's death, a giant edition of his plays ... His plays are full of great poetry – I really like the bombast in them – but perhaps some find them a bit excessive.

Sonnets are a form of poem that was much loved by William Shakespeare. This one might be his most famous: Sonnet 18. 'Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?' asks Shakespeare. A sonnet is ...

A rare hand-written copy of one of the most famous love poems ... Shakespeare, said the "exciting discovery" would help researchers understand the Bard's popularity in the decades following his death.