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Cultural Reference
Cultural Reference
Act 1,
Scene 1
Lines 11-

A reference to the fact that when two people pass each other, the upper class individual walks closer to the wall and further from the street and gutter than the person of lower class in myShakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 1.

In Shakespeare’s London, when two people passed on the sidewalk, the person of higher social rank walked next to the wall while the person of lower rank walked closer to the street where they risked stepping into the gutter or being splashed by a passing carriage.