... the play is, at times, seen from a rather different angle. For example, the first reference to love, in the play, is shown through two serving-men of the Capulet house, Sampson and Gregory. Throughout this early part of Act I Scene I, the two servants" coarse humour in conversation, and their vulgar and crude opinions on what they see as love, bring an ... start of the play. Both men have a very narrow-minded view of love, involving very little emotion, and only a view of both physical and sexual attraction. This is shown by Sampson's opinion of women as "weaker vessels" and also his re...

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... little speech being used, but it is accurate to the original script. Such lines as when Abram, a Capulet asks the question "Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?" and Sampson, a Montague replies, "I do bite my thumb, sir". This starts the gunfight between the two families. For those that are unsure, the biting of the thumb at one another is an ... ...

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