Britain.. Original Sonetih of William Shakespeare Found in Oxford Library
English language professor Leah Veronese found a manuscript copy of William Shakespeare's Sonnet No. 116 in a collection of texts dating back to the seventeenth century, and it differs slightly from the original version.
Veronese discovered, while conducting research in the old Bodleian Library at Oxford University, an amazing poem dating back to the seventeenth century. It soon turned out that it was a manuscript copy of a musical adaptation of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 116.
The adapted version differs from the original at the beginning and end, and contains additional lines.
Veronese said: "These additional lines may have been used to lengthen the song or to express political motives."
It is worth noting that early modern poetry was often distributed in written collections, and in this case, as the research showed, the collection also contained several original poems by the poet Elias Ashmole. However, when one of his poems was examined by Dr. Veronese, it turned out to be a strange copy of Sonnet 116.
The catalogue accompanying the collection was only prepared in the 19th century. It turned out that the description of the works in the collection was not accurate. The poem itself was not described accurately, as it was classified in the catalogue as a work "On the Constancy of Love". In addition, Shakespeare was not mentioned in the catalogue.
For this reason, the manuscript, which turned out to be a copy of Sonnet 116, remained undiscovered for many years. Moreover, it turned out that the discovered manuscript represents a modified version of Shakespeare's sonnet, which differs from the original sonnet. This means that we can now read additional lines that we did not know about before.
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