William Shakespeare was bisexual, claim researchers

Scholars analysed Shakespeare's sonnets and concluded that he was bisexual.
Professor Sir Stanley Wells and Dr Paul Edmondson rearranged Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets from the 1609 edition, to arrange them in the order in which they were most likely written and then added in the sonnets from his plays. Then they analysed the content of the words.
“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,” Dr Edmonsdson, as reported by The Telegraph, "It’s become fashionable since the mid-1980s to think of Shakespeare as gay.But he was married and had children.
“Some of these sonnets are addressed to a female and others to a male. To reclaim the term bisexual seems to be quite an original thing to be doing.”
The researchers said that they believe 27 sonnets were referring to males while only 10 were referring to women. Along with it, these sonnets are ‘open in their directions of desire’.
Shakespeare's sexuality has often been debated by academics. Though it is known he was married to Anne Hathaway, it is believed he was captivated by a ‘Fair Youth’ and led astray by the ‘Dark Lady’ and had affairs with both. However, the researchers think that they did not exist.
The last big debate on Shakespeare's sexuality was in 2014 and also involved Professor Wells. He challenged a comment made by Sir Brian Vickers which stated that the Times Literary Supplement book review was wrong to say that Shakespeare’s 119 sonnet was written in a “primarily homosexual context”.
“When a poet whose name is William writes poems of anguished and unabashed sexual frankness which pun on the word ‘will’ – 13 times in [Sonnet] No 135... It is not unreasonable to conclude that he may be writing from the depths of his own experience,” Professor Wells replied.
Professor Sir Stanley Wells and Dr Paul Edmondson's research will be published under the title, 'All the Sonnets of Shakespeare' and is due to release on September 10, 2020.