12-05-2016, 04:17 PM
(12-05-2016, 12:27 PM)rollingbrianjones Wrote: Also don't see how English speaking critics can rate Shakespeare any differently to non- as they will be comparing him to other writings that they have read in, well, English!Not all of them. A number of them were well read in other European languages - not a fantastic achievement, seeing how similar the Romance and Germanic languages are within their respective families, but certainly better educated than the retro rock worshipping monoglots of the Facebook generation.
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