Shakespeare s Body Language

Why do the Capulets bite their thumbs at the Montagues? Why do the Venetians spit upon Shylock''s Jewish gaberdine? What is it about Volumnia''s act of kneeling that convinces Coriolanus not to assault the city of Rome?

Shakespeare''s Body Language is a ground-breaking new study of Shakespearean drama, revealing the previously unseen history of social tensions found within the performance of gestur...