No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I bite my thumb, sir. I will bite my thumb at them which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it. You may remember the scene in question: Quarrelling breaks out among the servants of the two noble households (both, it is said, alike in dignity). As a case in point, I offer a question ShakespeareGeek recently raised, to wit (Shakespeare enthusiasts are often guilty of using the phrase “to wit” as well) “Do we know how Shakespeare and his audience would have imagined the thumb biting at the beginning of Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare enthusiasts often explore utterly fascinating (yet admittedly trivial) details. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. La Mimica degli Antichi investigata nel Gestire Napoletana [ Gesture in Naples and Gesture in Classical Antiquity: A Translation of La Mimica degli Antichi investigata nel Gestire Napoletana: Gestural Expressions of the Ancients in the Light of Neapolitan Gesturing.
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