The man that wrote the story said here was a modern case of Pyramus and Thisbe. |
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. |
Pyramus and Thisbe planned to meet under the mulberry tree, and that is where they died. |
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. |
There is a big wall in the way, and it won't do to repeat the tragedy of Pyramus and Thisbe. |