Far from idealising a perfect woman, they feature a female lover accused of making the poet sexually obsessed, furiously jealous, of cheating on him, stealing away his boy friend, and giving him a dose of the clap. Towards the end of the series there are 28 sonnets addressed to a woman. He has the correct initials, just reversed - perhaps to conceal his identity. Henry Wriothesley, third Earl of Southampton to whom in 1593 Shakespeare dedicated his poem Venus and Adonis and later The Rape of Lucrece.His initials fit to the dedication of the book to 'Mr WH'. William Herbert - refused to marry Elizabeth Carey, granddaughter of the Lord Chamberlain, the patron of the company Shakespeare worked for.There are several candidates for this Fair Youth. The first 17 sonnets for example seem to be addressed to a fair youth, an aristocratic young man, imploring him to get married, and have children. They may be addressed to a series of different people. WHO Did SHAKESPEARE ADDRESS WITH HIS SONNETS?
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