William Shakespeare was not Italian. He was born, lived and died in England. There's no evidence that he ever was in Italy.
Shakespeare was Italian.
Verona
Neither Shakespeare nor Verdi worked in Latin. Shakespeare was English, Verdi was Italian.
He was certainly not a part of the Italian Renaissance. He was never in italy and did not appear to know any Italian.
No. He was English through and through.
Shakespeare was Italian.
Verona
Neither Shakespeare nor Verdi worked in Latin. Shakespeare was English, Verdi was Italian.
He was certainly not a part of the Italian Renaissance. He was never in italy and did not appear to know any Italian.
No. He was English through and through.
Well, for one thing, the Italian Renaissance was a historical movement and wasn't written by anyone, and for another, it took place quite some time before Shakespeare was even born.
Sonnet CXXX did, yes.
William Shakespeare could speak 4 different languages. English, Latin, French, and Italian were the languages that Shakespeare could speak fluently.
No, he lived in the English Renaissance which happened sometime later.
Shakespeare's play Othello was not based on an earlier play, but rather on an Italian story called "A Moorish Captain", written by the Italian writer Cinthio, a pseudonym for Giovanni Battista Giraldi. Cinthio's story is an explicitly racist warning against mating with Africans. Shakespeare's play loses that ranting edge.
An internet search of the complete list of Shakespeare's plays includes two comedies that match your criteria:Merchant of VeniceTwo Gentlemen of Verona
Jeannette Fellheimer has written: 'The Englishman's conception of the Italian in the age of Shakespeare'