Shakespeare has also been discussed from this point of view.

All that can be said, however, is that he addressed a long series of sonnets to a youthful male friend.

These sonnets are written in lover's language of a very tender and noble order.

They do not appear to imply any relationship that the writer regarded as shameful or that would be so regarded by the world.

Moreover, they seem to represent but a single episode in the life of a very sensitive, many-sided nature.[87] There is no other evidence in Shakespeare's work of homosexual instinct such as we may trace throughout Marlowe's, while there is abundant evidence of a constant preoccupation with women.
While Shakespeare thus narrowly escapes inclusion in the list of distinguished inverts, there is much better ground for the inclusion of his great contemporary, Francis Bacon.