Was Shakespeare Gay or....Hmmm?!?

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AshlynHenderson

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If you guys think about it, people say that Shakespeare was gay. But do we really know? Not really. It could be a woman writing with a mans name...couldn't it? There is a poet who was a man in those times who wrote poetry with a womans name .. Can't remember the name. Isn't it something interesting to think about? Lol. I'm bored. What do you guys think?! :)
 
I think he was, that's what it seems like from Sonnet 55 and I've heard people say that many times. But it's okay. Doesn't matter.
 
Nah HE wasn't. But if it helps, Christopher Marlowe, another playwright of the same time was. In he was killed by being stabbed to death in an Elizabethan gay bar.
 
No idea, but I'm pretty sure Antonio and Bassanio were gays though.
But hey, what's wrong with being gay?
 
Lol at the "Antonio and Bassanio" comment. I admit that crossed my mind when I saw the play, too! But I don't think they were actually gay.

All I can say is that Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway when he was eighteen (and she 26, and pregnant). I'd guess that he was straight, but there's so much mystery surrounding his life that I couldn't say for certain!

edit: I feel the need to point out that he didn't marry Anne Hathaway the actress nowadays. He married a woman by the same name :P
 
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