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How to use Thisbe in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word Thisbe? Here are some examples.

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Pyramus and Thisbe planned to meet under the mulberry tree, and that is where they died.
The courtly audience at Pyramus and Thisbe is socially superior to the actors but little more sophisticated about what makes a play work.
He identified the tale of Pyramus and Thisbe as a burlesque of the Athenian lovers.
In Athens, Theseus, Hippolyta and the lovers watch the six workmen perform Pyramus and Thisbe.
Further, the mechanicals understand this theme as they take on their individual parts for a corporate performance of Pyramus and Thisbe.
I remember having so much fun doing the Pyramus and Thisbe play.
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.
Her Rustics' Pyramis and Thisbe play-within-a-play was particularly funny.
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.
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.
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.
Examples from Classical Literature
There is a big wall in the way, and it won't do to repeat the tragedy of Pyramus and Thisbe.
Here, Thisbe, run and bundle the thing off to her room before any one sees her.
As long, however, as the Thisbe was in sight they would not make the attempt.
The man that wrote the story said here was a modern case of Pyramus and Thisbe.
Ovid, in his story of Pyramus and Thisbe, tells us that the black mulberry was originally white.
Which leaves it only a question of who was Mr. Pyramus and who Miss Thisbe.
The Thisbe had once more got free of the Straits of Malacca.
The second act ushered in the Pyramus and Thisbe sequence, the play within a play performed by the rustics at Theseus and Hippolyta's nuptials.
The Scotts lost their two young children, Thisbe and Noah, to a rare neuromuscular disorder-Brown-Vialetto-Van Laere.
Thisbe saw these things as in a dream, and suddenly the truth awoke her.
Our debt to the Basel Museum would have been greater if it had sent us his Pyramus and Thisbe or Cephalus and Procris rather than yet another dismal scene of decapitation.
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