Edward de Vere’s life — as are his plays — was extremely complicated. Like many of his characters, he was impetuous and often ...

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Jolene. Jolene. Jolene.' I said, 'That is pretty. That sounds like a song. I'm going to write a song about that.'" Parton had recently married Dean in 1966 and combined her inspiration from the ...

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With free agency around the corner and the 2025 NFL Draft coming up in April, Kevin Patra assesses the wide receiver situations of all 32 teams in the NFL. Teams are listed in alphabetical order ...

Dr Leah Veronese uncovered the version of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 tucked away in a 17th Century poetry collection at the University of Oxford. The manuscript was found among the papers of ...

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That’s because Veronese had stumbled upon a rare, undocumented copy of one of Shakespeare’s most famous ... opening lines” of the poem, Veronese wrote in the study. In his defense, the ...

The first thing to say about Stephen Greenblatt's William Shakespeare is that he would have written nothing with a golden quill, and that it is unlikely that he ever rested his hand on golden cushions ...

Charles Spencer has discussed why he wrote his memoir ... whom I believe understood that boarding school was tough, but he did not suspect how deviant it could also be. Meanwhile my mother ...

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It is now set to go on display again at the Royal Society. Did Newton drink the beer he wrote with? While Newton’s use of beer as an ink ingredient is now documented, the study also hints at his ...