Body Language In William Shakespeare's Hamlet

However strange it may sound Shakespeare’s well–known thoughts on the power of body language, “There's language in her eyes, her cheek, her lip. Nay her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out at every joint and every motive in her body.” evoke my dear late father’s lame, but very amusing attempt to explain to a carful of Russian soldiers, 200 m away from a petrol station, where they could get hold of fuel. He had learned Russian in all his school years, even at college, but could still not speak a word of it. Therefore, he used body language, German and
Italian words he had managed to pick up here and there to get through to the desperate soldiers.
Although I do not remember the outcome of this conversation, I do remember how hard my
brother,