Oscar Wilde posited in a short story that he was the boy actor for whom Shakespeare wrote his greatest roles. Based on internal evidence in the sonnets Wilde came up with Willie Hughes as a possible name for him, although it is more commonly held that if indeed he existed he was of far nobler origins. Possible candidates are the Earl of Southampton, and the Earl of Pembroke, although some maintain that Shakespeare himself is the man who is alluded to in the dedication of the sonnets. FTP, name this person, "the onlie begetter" of Shakepseare's 
Oscar Wilde posited in a short story that he was the boy actor for whom Shakespeare wrote his greatest roles. Based on internal evidence in the sonnets Wilde came up with Willie Hughes as a possible name for him, although it is more commonly held that if indeed he existed he was of far nobler origins. Possible candidates are the Earl of Southampton, and the Earl of Pembroke, although some maintain that Shakespeare himself is the man who is alluded to in the dedication of the sonnets. FTP, name this person, "the onlie begetter" of Shakepseare's sonnets, who is identified only by his initials.
Oscar Wilde posited in a short story that he was the boy actor for whom Shakespeare wrote his greatest roles.
{Mr. W.H.}