William Shakespeare, the greatest writer of the English language (or, for that matter, any language), was a bisexual man.Sir Stanley Wells and Dr.
Paul Edmonson, two UK-based Shakespeare scholars, came to the conclusion after a thorough analysis of Shakespeare’s sonnets.
Of 182 sonnets, the pair concluded that 10 were written for women, while at least 27 were written for men. The duo arranged the sonnets in a likely chronological order based on phrases mirrored in Shakespeare’s plays.
As they did so, a pattern began to emerge.“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,” Edmondson told UK newspaper The Telegraph. “It’s become.