So a tete a tete is a private conversation between two people. In this case between me and you. Me the writer and you the reader. Not unlike Shakespeare’s Sonnet 117; Shakespeare is the writer and Henry 3rd Earl of Southampton is the reader. Or Henry is the guy Shakespeare is talking to when he writes Sonnet 117. Shakespeare’s Sonnet 117 offers a…[Read more]

Phebe writes a tout pour tout meaning Shakespeare’s Ganymede is “a beast” like Marlowe’s Leander as from a Ganymede transformed.