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Experts say William Shakespeare was ‘undeniably bisexual’

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Two academics have analysed William Shakespeare’s sonnets and concluded he was ‘undeniably bisexual’. For years people disputed that England’s greatest playwright was gay or bi – despite him writing 27 of his sonnets to men.

Those who did accept he wasn’t straight tended to argue he was gay. However he was also married for 34 years to a woman. Now Sir Stanley Wells and Dr Paul Edmondson have analysed Shakespeare’s 182 sonnets.

They say they are ‘some of the most powerfully lyrical, resonant and memorable poems ever written about what it feels like to experience romantic love’.

Moreover they conclude: ‘The language of sexuality in some of the sonnets, which are definitely addressed to a male subject, leaves us in no doubt that Shakespeare

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