Google any famous name plus the word gay and you’ll find that someone’s beaten you to the speculative punch. William Shakespeare gets a particular amount of attention in the gay/straight arena. People have been dissecting Shakespeare’s work and life for decades trying …

Was Shakespeare Gay or Straight? One fact is certain: Shakespeare was in a heterosexual marriage. At the age of 18, William married Anne Hathaway in a shotgun ceremony probably because their was conceived out of wedlock.

This is a really big question that people have written a great deal about, so this episode acts as a sort of summary of some of the arguments for and against Shakespeare being gay.

The short answer is that no one knows. There’s not all that much known about Shakespeare’s personal life and so no one can be certain. It is known that he was married to Anne Hathaway and had

Was Shakespeare gay? Was he bisexual? Was he either or both of the above at different times of his life? Would he have divulged the fact? Buggery was punishable by hanging until 1861. And, the

Debate has once again arisen about whether William Shakespeare, the greatest poet and playwright in the English language, was gay. Shakespearean scholar Sir Brian Vickers stirred up discussion

William Shakespeare was an English playwright and poet, widelyregarded as the greatest writer in the English language and theworld’s pre-eminent dramatist.

Royal Shakespeare Company artistic director Greg Doran has waded into the long-running William Shakespeare sexuality debate, saying he believes the writer was gay and it is time for his gay

William Shakespeare may have been gay, the artistic director the Royal Shakespeare Company has suggested, and directors can no longer hide the sexuality of his homosexual characters. Greg Doran on

But Sir Stanley Wells, a Shakespeare scholar at the University of Birmingham, told the Telegraph: ‘Shakespeare was certainly not exclusively gay. ‘But he was pretty certainly bisexual and actively so.