text: This man is addressed as "Dear son of memory, great heir of fame" in a poem titled for him that exclaims "What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name!"
full_question: This man is addressed as "Dear son of memory, great heir of fame" in a poem titled for him that exclaims "What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name!" Erskine becomes obsessed with a theory that this man was in love with a youth named Willie Hughes in a short story by Oscar Wilde. John Milton addressed this man's "honoured bones" in a poem titled "On [him]". He was praised for writing about "the genuine progeny of common humanity" in an introduction to his works by (*) Samuel Johnson. He's not Edward Gibbon, but his works were heavily censored by Thomas Bowdler. Virginia Woolf imagined the disadvantages that would have been faced by this man's imaginary sister, Judith, growing up in Stratford-upon- Avon. For 10 points, name this English author of As You Like It.
first_sentence: This man is addressed as "Dear son of memory, great heir of fame" in a poem titled for him that exclaims "What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name!"
raw_answer: William Shakespeare