It disappeared from the work page as well as from the authors page. Is this intended?
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This was deliberately removed following MusicBrainz because it’s deprecated.
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Well, what language should we choose then for artist names and titles that are just names of a character like ‘Hamlet’?. The field is mandatory so we have to choose a language.
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I’d go with English 
(Doesn’t BookBrainz have a guideline for this stuff?)
Well it says: ‘use the language used for the name’ (just works well for languages like Russian or Chinese)…there is an extra field for the language of the text.
And it makes no sense to use a specific language for a title like “Richard III.’ or any author name written in Latin letters. MB doesn’t have these fields. Maybe these fields are deprecated 
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Yes the guideline is to use [multiple languages], because it applies to multiple languages, not to pick one specific language because it doesn’t apply to one specific language.
The main issue is that BookBrainz requires a language for author names, but obviously people’s names in the Latin script don’t change depending on language. Is Ursula K. Le Guin an English name or French? Is Noam Chomsky an English name?
This is not the same situation as lyrics languages, as in your link. We also have a field to the content of the work, which of course needs to in one or several languages.
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