Lost for 400 Years: Researcher Discover Hidden Copy of Shakespeare Sonnet

Lost for 400 Years: Researcher Discover Hidden Copy of Shakespeare Sonnet

A rare manuscript version of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116, discovered by Dr. Leah Veronese, reveals how the poem was politically repurposed and set to music during the English Civil War. Dr Leah Veronese of Oxford University’s English Faculty has discovered a rare manuscript copy of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116, hidden within a 17th-century poetry miscellany. The manuscript [...]

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It's been hidden for 400 years.

A researcher from Oxford University has discovered a manuscript copy of Shakespeare's 116th sonnet. The copy dates back to the 17th century.

Shakespeare in the Park Photos Whet the Appetite for the Delacorte’s Summer Reopening

In 1976 Meryl Streep and Paul Rudd starred in Shakespeare in the Park’s Henry V production. Photo by Bonnie Eissner By Bonnie Eissner Meryl Streep was in her 20s and not yet a household name when she played a ravishing Princess Katherine in the 1976 Shakespeare in the Park production of “Henry V.” One recent Saturday, she was back – or at least her image was – in a series of photos hanging on the chain-link fence that surrounds Central Park’s De…