Backstage at the Globe Theatre in 1596 - William and Henry and a burning love to be kept secret

A poignant moment backstage at the Globe Theatre, where 32 ys old William Shakespeare, weary from rehearsal, shares a quiet moment secretly with 23 ys old Henry Wriothesly, the 3rd Earl of Southampton, his Muse

Sonnet 112, quatrain 1-2 Your love and pity doth the impression fill Which vulgar scandal stamp’d upon my brow; For what care I who calls me well or ill, So you o’er-green my bad, my good allow? You are my all the world, and I must strive To know my shames and praises from your tongue; None else to me, nor I to none alive, That my steel’d sense or changes right or wrong.