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    Pyramus and Thisbe (Ancient Greek: Πύραμος καὶ Θίσβη, romanized: Pýramos kai Thísbe) are a pair of legendary, ill-fated lovers from Babylon whose story...
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  • Pyramus and Thisbe is a "mock opera" by the German-born composer John Frederick Lampe on the story of Pyramus and Thisbe. It was first performed at Covent...
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  • The Pyramus and Thisbe Club was founded in 1974 to bring together surveyors and architects with a professional interest in party wall matters, especially...
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    for the characters of Thisbe, the Lion, and Pyramus at the same time. Quince insists that Bottom can only play the role of Pyramus. Bottom would also rather...
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    Night's Dream who perform the play-within-a-play Pyramus and Thisbe. They are a group of amateur and mostly incompetent actors from around Athens, looking...
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  • "Wall" in Pyramus and Thisbe. Snug is a joiner in A Midsummer Night's Dream. He plays the lion in Pyramus and Thisbe. Solanio is a friend and counterpart...
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  • Pyramus and Thisbe which the poet Ovid makes use of in Metamorphoses and this is related to an earlier tragic love story in which both lovers die and...
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    Metamorphoses (redirect from Crow and raven)
    of Pyramus and Thisbe (Metamorphoses Book IV); and, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, a band of amateur actors performs a play about Pyramus and Thisbe. Shakespeare's...
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    Tybalt (category Characters in Romeo and Juliet)
    lovers) published in 1530.(pp38–44) Da Porto drew on Pyramus and Thisbe, Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron and a novella by Masuccio Salernitano. Da Porto gave...
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    of Athens who plays the part of Moonshine in their performance of Pyramus and Thisbe. His part is often considered one of the more humorous in the play...
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    play-within-a-play, Tom Snout plays the wall which separates Pyramus' and Thisbe's gardens. In Pyramus and Thisbe, the two lovers whisper to each other through Snout's...
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    awakes to find Romeo dead Pyramus and Thisbe Lovers of Cluj-Napoca Lovers of Teruel Antony and Cleopatra Tristan and Iseult Mem and Zin see § Shakespeare's...
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    to utter what has happened and says "For if I tell you, I am no true Athenian". Theseus ends up choosing Pyramus and Thisbe as the performance for his...
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  • fat to the gods while keeping the meat for themselves. In Ovid's Pyramus and Thisbe, the origin of the color of mulberries is explained, as the white...
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  • himself authored, "The Most Lamentable Comedy and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe" for the Duke Theseus and his wife Hippolyta at their wedding. Titania's...
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    Star-crossed (category Romeo and Juliet)
    star-crossed lovers vary in written work. Pyramus and Thisbe are usually regarded as the source for Romeo and Juliet, and is featured in A Midsummer Night's...
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    Jewels of Mary, Queen of Scots (category Monarchy and money)
    figures of Thisbe and Pyramus by a fountain, set on leaves of agate. Mary had been contrasted with Thisbe by her enemies. A ballad printed and circulated...
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    rustics of Pyramus and Thisbe at the final wedding takes on an added dimension as a parody of nineteenth-century Italian opera. Thisbe's lament, accompanied...
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  • A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935 film) (category American black-and-white films)
    playing the main role of Pyramus, is over-enthusiastic and suggests himself for the characters of Thisbe, the Lion, and Pyramus at the same time. He also...
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    role of Thisbe in "Pyramus and Thisbe", a play-within-the-play which is performed for Theseus' marriage celebration. In the play Flute (Thisbe) speaks...
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  • assigns parts to his upcoming production based on the tragedy of Pyramus and Thisbe. After the townspeople make a mockery of actor Nick Bottom, the acting...
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    the lovers Pyramus and Thisbe. Meeting under a mulberry tree (probably the native Morus nigra), Thisbe commits suicide by sword after Pyramus does the same...
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    portal Ireland portal Antony and Cleopatra Romeo and Juliet Pyramus and Thisbe Canoel Medieval hunting (terminology) "Tristan and Isolde | legendary figures...
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    e Romeo and included it in his Historia novellamente ritrovata di due Nobili Amanti published in 1530. Da Porto drew on Pyramus and Thisbe and Boccaccio's...
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    erected to him a temple-tomb, 9 stadia high and 10 stadia broad, near Babylon, where the story of Pyramus and Thisbe (Πύραμος; Θίσβη) was later based. She was...
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    Isolde, Cliges and Fenice, Pyramus and Thisbe and Paris and Helen. The work presumably enjoyed limited success, and its reception did not extend beyond...
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  • Titania falls in love with him. He plays Pyramus in Pyramus and Thisbe. Boult is a servant of the Pander and the Bawd in Pericles, Prince of Tyre. He...
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    or extremely dark, turbulent and threatening, as a setting for tragic events, as in his Landscape with Pyramus and Thisbe (1651). Many of his landscapes...
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    Duke, T. T. (1971). "Ovid's Pyramus and Thisbe". The Classical Journal. 66 (4). Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS): 320–327. ISSN 0009-8353...
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  • the free dictionary. Thisbe is a character from Greek mythology in the story of Pyramus and Thisbe. Thisbe may also refer to: Thisbe (Boeotia), a town of...
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