Have you ever been curious about the first scene in Romeo and Juliet, when the servingman Sampson declares that he will… bite his thumb at another character? There’s a story behind that peculiar gesture, which in real life was more meaningful outside of England.įrom insults to slovenliness and plain old rudeness, the people of Elizabethan England had a multitude of ways to behave badly-some of which are equally repellant today and some of which now make little sense or just seem silly.
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