Was William Shakespeare male or female?

Answer 1

Fans of the conspiracy theory that William Shakespeare was actually a woman who disguised herself as a man so as to be able to write will need some bizarre explanations indeed to explain how he was able to marry Anne Hathaway and father three children on her while living in the same town as his parents. Do you think his mother did not know what sex he was?

No, Shakespeare was certainly male. He does, however exhibit a strong sensitivity to the feminine point of view in the creation of many of his characters including Paulina in The Winter's Tale and Constance in King John. Some might consider that this is evidence that, in the modern parlance, his sex may have been male but his gender was female.

Answer 2

No, all surviving authentic images of him show him wearing men's clothing. However, it is possible that he might have worn women's clothing if he played the part of a woman on stage. What meagre evidence we have about what parts he played suggests he did not play womens' parts and so had no call to dress like a woman.

Silly answers follow . . .

yes, he wore ladies clothes because he thought they were cute and warmer than mens clothes.

That is a load of rubbish, It depends if you look at it from are point of veiw the answer would be yes, but if you look at it from his point of veiw it would be no because that was the fashion at that time. (Except that women have never worn the kind of clothes Shakespeare wore)

Answer 3

William Shakespeare was male. He was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language.