William Shakespeare was bisexual, suggests new research

“The language of sexuality in some of the sonnets, which are definitely addressed to a male subject, leaves us in no doubt that Shakespeare was bisexual. It’s become fashionable since the mid-1980s to think of Shakespeare as gay. But he was married and had children. Some of these sonnets are addressed to a female and others to a male. To reclaim the term bisexual seems to be quite an original thing to be doing,” Dr Edmonsdson was quoted as saying.

“When a poet whose name is William writes poems of anguished and unabashed sexual frankness which pun on the word ‘will’ – 13 times in [Sonnet] No 135… It is not unreasonable to conclude that he may be writing from the depths of his own experience,” Professor Wells further added.

There is little known about Shakespeare giving rise to multiple theories over the years.