The Shakespeare Recovered exhibition at Durham University tells the story of what happened to the literary wonder and its restoration.

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William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 remains one of the best-known poems on love in the English language, its steely reverence for marital commitment long making it a wedding favorite. It is not a ...

While conducting research at Oxford University’s Bodleian Library, English professor Leah Veronese found a striking poem in a 17th-century collection of texts. The poem’s first stanzas seemed ...

Most of Oxford's attractions cluster around the compact city centre. The university is made up of 39 colleges, each of which has its own character. Christ Church and Magdalen (pronounced "mawd-lin ...

Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire and famous worldwide for its prestigious university, the oldest in the English-speaking world. In his poem ‘Thyrsis’ the Victorian poet Matthew Arnold called ...