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Not Time's Fool: A Rare Version of a Shakespeare Sonnet Is Discovered
- treetalker 2y ago(Gift article) Researcher found a handwritten version of Sonnet 116 with extra lines and political overtones.
- zahlman 2y agoThat's a huge relief, then. Apparently we'll be able to go more than a hundred more versions before we have to worry about that sort of misalignment.
- 6stringmerc 2y agoUpon close reading it’s not Shakespeare’s work, it’s a song variation in the 1640s, long after he was dead and his material was being adapted. I might not be reading the scholarly article correctly…but my impression is this is not an alternate version of an actual work by William Shakespeare.
- jfengel 2y agoThat's correct. It's not by Shakespeare; it doesn't tell us anything about Shakespeare himself. But it does tell us a lot about what Shakespeare meant to people in the decades after his death. Like the plays, the perception of Shakespeare himself has changed over the centuries.
- PlunderBunny 2y agoDid you forget to paste the gift article link? The main article link goes to a paywalled page for me.
- treetalker 2y agoStrange, I pasted the gift link. Here it is again: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/world/europe/shakespeare-sonnet-oxford-discovery.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1U4.AFZC.PuYpUNfFbGKq&smid=url-share https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/world/europe/shakespeare-...
- gnabgib 2y agoGift links don't survive the HN submission process (which uses canonical URLs), the only way to include one is as a comment after submission (like this).