The gender confusion in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night alluded to by Peter T a couple of posts above might or might not be indicative of bisexuality--after all, boys playing women were a theatre convention of the time, and gender farces were another established tradition. BUT, in Twelfth Night, there is a relationship between Antonio and Seabstian that seems to me to be clearly a gay love (or at least lust on Antonio's part), and is rendered so poignantly and realistically that Shakespeare must have been, if not "screamingly" bisexual, at least able to understand and feel the [early 17th Century's equivalent of a] gay point of view. Of course, there's a sad ending to the affair, as Antonio is led away for piracy and Sebastian can't/won't come to his defense, but that's probably realistic given Elizabethan attitudes.

--Charlie Baum

(Returning you to folk music, after this brief lit-crit interrruption)