Shakespeare was ‘undeniably’ bisexual, scholars argue in new book
the Telegraph reported.The scholars chronologically ordered the prolific playwright’s 182 sonnets — 154 standalone sonnets as well as the 28 sonnets found in his plays. In ordering the 14-line rhyming poems, the pair deduced that 27 are addressed to males, 10 to females and the other 145 are “open in their directions of desire.” Those sonnets addressed to loves of unspecified gender include Shakespeare’s best known, Sonnet 18, which includes the famous line “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day.”“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.