What are all of the languages that Shakespeare read?

Answer 1

30 for the complete works and 80+ for indivudual editions of plays etc

Answer 2

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."

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

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.

Answer 7

Shakespeare was born in England and spoke English