Pyramus and Thisbe planned to meet under the mulberry tree, and that is where they died. |
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The courtly audience at Pyramus and Thisbe is socially superior to the actors but little more sophisticated about what makes a play work. |
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He identified the tale of Pyramus and Thisbe as a burlesque of the Athenian lovers. |
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In Athens, Theseus, Hippolyta and the lovers watch the six workmen perform Pyramus and Thisbe. |
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Further, the mechanicals understand this theme as they take on their individual parts for a corporate performance of Pyramus and Thisbe. |
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I remember having so much fun doing the Pyramus and Thisbe play. |
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The tragedy unfolds in the interweaving of reality of the court, the theatrical representation of the clique of craftsmen on the theme of Pyramus and Thisbe and dreamlike of spirits. |
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Her Rustics' Pyramis and Thisbe play-within-a-play was particularly funny. |
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At the end of the play, Hippolyta and Theseus, happily married, watch the play about the unfortunate lovers, Pyramus and Thisbe, and are able to enjoy and laugh at it. |
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Richmond also noted that there are parallels between the tale of Pyramus and Thisbe, featured in this play, and that of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. |
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Some scholars believe Ovid's Pyramus and Thisbe, as well as the story of Ariadne at Naxos might have also contributed to the development of the Tristan legend. |
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