Why I do not believe Shakespeare was an homosexual?

In the present essay I am going to demonstrate the reason why I do not believe W. Shakespeare  was an homosexual. I am going to analyze my work organizing it into different sequences that will develop my argumentation. The first sequence will introduce the object of discussion; the central sequence will develop my argumentation and last but not least I will conclude with a series of references and considerations that will make my point clear.

Shakespeare is without any doubt one of the most discussed literary figures of English and world literature. This is of course due to the complexity of his literary output which includes poetry, plays and prose, but for the purpose of the present essay I'm going to consider a more narrow area and namely his sonnets.

Therefore I'm perfectly aware of the limited perspective of my analysis which will of course start with some references to Shakespeare's collection of sonnets of which I have studied only very few.

Everybody knows that most of his sonnets were addressed to the so called " Fair Youth"; this piece of information is surely responsible for the idea that Shakespeare was an homosexual, in that a lot of people wonder why a man should address his poems to another man  when most poets generally wrote for women. It goes without saying that most sonnets have surely been addressed to women simply because writers and poets were men. Even today women are given  less chances then man to choose their profession. Therefore it cannot surely surprise the intelligent thinker that women could not be poetesses in Shakespeare's times and the best opportunity given them during the English Renaissance was to be bridesmaid at court .

Men could profit of the benefits of a patron under whose  power poets generally worked. As a matter of fact the Fair Youth had also been referred to as Mr WH which is an acronym for one of Shakespeare's patrons. However if the intelligent reader considers the economy of his collections of sonnets, he will realize that even if most of his sonnets are addressed to a man, the Fair Youth, the remaining ones were  for a Dark Lady and the rival poet.

No surprise then Shakespeare might have written mainly for the man who supported his company, the theatre company, at the same time considering the potential to address a woman in the effort to find new conventions somehow able to replace the stereotyped image of a courteous lady. In particular, if you consider the features of the lady celebrated in the most famous sonnet addressed to the dark lady,  you will immediately understand that it reaffirms the power of women even the ones that haven't got fair hairr and blue eyes in the shape of a modern Barbie.

And this means that Shakespeare was able to understand that it was the female principle, the one able to capture somebody's attention and seduce him. Symbolically, Shakespeare's lady is the dark lady, a mysterious creature that becomes the mistress of the poet's heart.

She doesn't wear a pleasant perfume, her eyes are definitely less fascinating then the Sun and even her hair is like wires and in Shakespeare's same words "and yet by heaven I think my love as clear".

In addition, if you consider the way he portrays the Fair Youth, you will immediately recognize the male figures seem not to suffer. Consider that he speaks of the Fair Youth as "the master mistress of my passion" which sounds more the reconciliation of opposites than the determination of a man's superiority.