News about medieval manuscripts, rare books and other special collections from the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford
Students from Yale-NUS selected five items to illuminate an encounter with Shakespeare’s Sonnets A choice of 5 items following our journey through the collection of sonnets by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) … Continue reading “Shakespeare’s Sonnets: a selection curated for the Bodleian by Yale-NUS in 2022”
Russell Maret, 2017 printer-in-residence at the Bodleian, led a seminar looking at old and new printings of Shakespeare. Participating were some of the printers who had contributed to the Bodleian’s … Continue reading “New sonnets and old Shakespeare: Russell Maret and the Sonnets 2016 collection”
Vile or vile esteemed? Look hard for the ‘missing’ lines in Sonnet 126. More to come on these sonnets, with notes of their making, in a later blogpost.
In 2016, the 400 year after William Shakespeare’s death, the Bodleian Library asked printers around the world to print his sonnets afresh. These are the results. See more Shakespeare sonnets … Continue reading “Shakespeare’s Sonnets 100 to 120, printed in 2016”
This series is called, ‘Figures of delight,’ after the title given to Sonnet 98 by Ken Burnley, Silver Birch Press. NOTE – missing sonnets will be supplied in the correct … Continue reading “Shakespeare’s Sonnets 78 to 98”
NOTE: Sonnet 38, printed by Armina Ghazarian, in Ghent, will be pictured in an update of this post.
The Bodleian Libraries welcomed two unique sets of sonnets into the Libraries’ collections at a special event on 10 November, 2016. One was a set of sonnets written by Oxford … Continue reading “Sonnets printed in 2016 welcomed to the Bodleian Libraries”