The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust website says this:
"At the Shakespeare Centre in Stratford-upon-Avon, which is the headquarters of the International Shakespeare Association, the library collection in 1999 included the Complete Works in more than 30 languages and individual editions of the plays and poems in over 80 languages, from Arabic and Albanian to Yakut and Zulu."
Well shakespear went to grammar school when he was younger to learn to speak Latin, so i believe Latin was one. Old English, like the way Shakespeare Wrote, im not sure about anything else, but I know Latin and Old English were definitely spoken at those times.
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust website says this:
"At the Shakespeare Centre in Stratford-upon-Avon, which is the headquarters of the International Shakespeare Association, the library collection in 1999 included the Complete Works in more than 30 languages and individual editions of the plays and poems in over 80 languages, from Arabic and Albanian to Yakut and Zulu."
Just about all of them. To give you an idea, the New Globe is putting on performances of all of Shakespeare's plays, with each one being performed in a different translation.
Shakespeare's works have been translated into all major world languages and most of the minor ones, and a few artificial ones as well (like Klingon). Some have counted more than 80 different languages into which Shakespeare's work has been translated.
Shakespeare studied Latin in school, and his school Latin curriculum formed the basis of his classical plays and classical allusions in his plays. Unlike his contemporaries, he did not interlard his plays with Latin quotations. Apparently, he had also studied a little Greek. There is also the scene in Henry V (Act III Scene 4) which is entirely in French, and was written by someone who knew his French. If Shakespeare wrote this scene, he was fluent in French, but he might have asked another playwright to write it.
One language Shakespeare certainly did not understand was Old English. The English he spoke and wrote was Modern English, the same as I am writing in now, just a different dialect of it.
30 for the complete works and 80+ for indivudual editions of plays etc
Shakespeare was born in England and spoke English
Shakespeare took almost all of his plots from books he had read.
Shakespeare took almost all of his plots from books he had read.
William Shakespeare could speak 4 different languages. English, Latin, French, and Italian were the languages that Shakespeare could speak fluently.
As with almost all of Shakespeare's plays, Shakespeare got the story from a story he read somewhere.
They are all red (read)
Shakespeare = Shakespeare(names are usually the same in all languages)
Shakespeare took almost all of his plots from books he had read.
Shakespeare took almost all of his plots from books he had read.
William Shakespeare could speak 4 different languages. English, Latin, French, and Italian were the languages that Shakespeare could speak fluently.
As with almost all of Shakespeare's plays, Shakespeare got the story from a story he read somewhere.
A student of english literature must read all the works of shakespeare
They are all red (read)
The languages that William Shakespeare studied at New Kings School are believed to be classics and Latin grammar. These languages shaped his literature a great deal.
Very few people read Shakespeare's plays. Mostly they watched them. But Anne Shakespeare probably did neither, and is very unlikely to have read them. Anne couldn't read.
Only William Shakespeare could read and write in his family.
It's a matter of opinion really. I recommend that you watch or read all of his plays and read all of his poetry and then give your own answer to this one.
All the people who have heard or read his work since it was published posthumously.