Shakespeare's original opening was changed ... They transform the sonnet from a poem about romantic love to a powerful statement speaking on the conflict in England at the time.

No collection of romantic poems would be complete without at least one of William Shakespeare’s iconic love sonnets. First published in 1609, “Sonnet 116” stresses that true love should not ...

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.

Instead of celebrating eternal romantic love as Shakespeare intended in the poem, this revised version seemingly promoted devotion to the English monarchy, aligning it with royalist politics ...