As the Daily Mail is reporting, Sir Ian McKellen cited the frequently gender-bending plot devices of Shakespeare’s famed plays as evidence that the playwright himself was gay, or at the very least bisexual.
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“I’d say Shakespeare slept with men,” McKellen, 72, is quoted by the publication as saying. “‘The Merchant of Venice.’ centering on how the world treats gays as well as Jews, has a love triangle between an older man, younger man and a woman.”
The openly gay McKellen, who has starred in several productions of Shakespeare’s works including “Othello” and “Macbeth,” went on to note, “And the complexity in his comedies with cross-dressing and disguises is immense. Shakespeare obviously enjoyed sex with men as well as women.”
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