Exclusive: To the Deserving Author, found in the playbook of Jonson's Sejanus: His Fall, is signed by 'Cygnus' An almost unknown sonnet in the playbook or script of a 1603 play by Ben Jonson could be a "lost" work by William Shakespeare, according to two leading scholars. Beyond "compelling" stylistic evidence, the sonnet, titled To the Deserving Author, is signed with the mysterious pseudonym Cygnus, after the mythi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AM on March 23, 2023