Wednesday, November 18, 2009

What is the name of a Greek story in which there are two lovers who have a romance through a hole in the wall?

That play was called Pyramus and Thisbe. I was told by my first lit professor that it was the inspiration for Romeo and Juliet. As I recall, that was the play the mechanicals put on in a Midsummer Night's Dream, as well. Must have been a favorite of Will's.

What is the name of a Greek story in which there are two lovers who have a romance through a hole in the wall?
Pyramus and Thisbe





It isn't more Roman, as the person above me says. It's Greek. I actually just reread the story last night in my book ( which is called Greek Myths)
Reply:Pyramus and Thisbe.
Reply:Pyramus and Tisbe
Reply:It's Pyramus and Thisbe, yes, but not Greek, Roman, as it first appeared in Ovid's Metamorphoses:





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramus_and...








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Reply:Pyramus and Thisbe
Reply:For a very funny misinterpretation, read the end of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," when the mechanicals try to put on the play for the court.
Reply:a hole in the wall?!?!?...how romantic


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