Shakespeare's original opening was changed ... They transform the sonnet from a poem about romantic love to a powerful ...

Your love and pity doth th’ impression ... world besides methinks are dead. William Shakespeare (1564–1616), who needs no introduction on a poetry page, was considered the greatest English ...

Instead of celebrating eternal romantic love as Shakespeare intended in the poem, this revised version seemingly promoted ...

When I looked in the catalogue (originally compiled in the nineteenth century) the poem was described, not inaccurately, as 'on constancy in love'—but it doesn't mention Shakespeare. I think the ...

But the collection’s most intriguing text is an altered copy of Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 116,” a famous ode to unceasing love.

This was the second scandal of Shakespeare’s life, because the Sonnets were love poems and were not written for his wife. There has always been a mystery about to whom the Sonnets were addressed.

A rare original handwritten copy of Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 ... and parliamentarians at the time. This poem, initially a ...

This clip is from the series Shakespeare Themes. Students could look at love poetry, find images within the poems and discuss what they show us about the idea of love. Are there different kinds of ...