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Pyramus and Thisbe, the Glossary

Pyramus and Thisbe (Pýramos kaì Thísbē) are a pair of legendary, ill-fated lovers from Babylon whose story forms part of Ovid's Metamorphoses.^[1]

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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Ancient Cilicia
Babylon in fiction
Metamorphoses into bodies of water in Greek mythology
Mythological lovers
Romeo and Juliet

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play written by William Shakespeare in about 1595 or 1596.

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Amoryus and Cleopes

Amoryus and Cleopes is a poem written in 1449 by John Metham; it was an early English adaptation of the Pyramus and Thisbe narrative from Book 4 of Ovid‘s Metamorphoses.

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Around the Beatles

Around the Beatles was a 1964 television special featuring the Beatles, produced by Jack Good for ITV/Rediffusion London.

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Arthur Brooke (died 19 March 1563) was an English poet who wrote and created various works including The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet (1562), considered to be William Shakespeare's chief source for his tragedy Romeo and Juliet (published in 1597). Pyramus and Thisbe and Arthur Brooke (poet) are Romeo and Juliet.

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Babylon

Babylon was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 miles) south of modern day Baghdad.

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Babylonia

Babylonia (𒆳𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠) was an ancient Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area based in the city of Babylon in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq and parts of Syria and Iran).

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Bolu Babalola

Bolu Babalola (born 24 February 1991) is a British Nigerian author, screenwriter, and journalist.

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Cautionary tale

A cautionary tale or moral tale is a tale told in folklore to warn its listener of a danger.

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Ceyhan River

The Ceyhan River (historically Pyramos or Pyramus (Πύραμος), Leucosyrus (Λευκόσυρος) or Jihun) is a river in Anatolia in the south of Turkey.

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Cilicia

Cilicia is a geographical region in southern Anatolia, extending inland from the northeastern coasts of the Mediterranean Sea. Pyramus and Thisbe and Cilicia are ancient Cilicia.

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Confessio Amantis

Confessio Amantis ("The Lover's Confession") is a 33,000-line Middle English poem by John Gower, which uses the confession made by an ageing lover to the chaplain of Venus as a frame story for a collection of shorter narrative poems.

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Ctesias

Ctesias (Κτησίᾱς; fl. fifth century BC), also known as Ctesias of Cnidus, was a Greek physician and historian from the town of Cnidus in Caria, then part of the Achaemenid Empire.

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Cyprus

Cyprus, officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

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De Mulieribus Claris

De Mulieribus Claris or De Claris Mulieribus (Latin for "Concerning Famous Women") is a collection of biographies of historical and mythological women by the Florentine author Giovanni Boccaccio, composed in Latin prose in 1361–1362.

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Demetrius (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

Demetrius is one of the lovers in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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Edmond Rostand

Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand (1 April 1868 – 2 December 1918) was a French poet and dramatist.

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Egeus

Egeus is a character in A Midsummer Night's Dream, the comedy by William Shakespeare.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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François Francoeur

François Francœur (8 September 1698 – 5 August 1787) was a French composer and violinist from the late Baroque era and the Classical era.

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François Rebel

François Rebel (19 June 17017 November 1775) was a French composer of the Baroque era.

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Francis Flute

Francis Flute is a character in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (– 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales.

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George Harrison

George Harrison (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English musician, singer and songwriter who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles.

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Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio (16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist.

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Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello

Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello (also Bressonelli; ca. 1690, Bologna – 4 October 1758, Stuttgart) was an Italian Baroque composer and violinist.

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Helena (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

Helena is one of four young lovers – the others being Demetrius, Lysander, Hermia – featured in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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Hermia

Hermia is a fictional character from Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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Jean-Louis-Ignace de La Serre

Jean-Louis-Ignace de La Serre, sieur de Langlade, was an 18th-century French novelist and playwright born in Cahors in 1662 and died 30 September 1756.

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Johann Adolph Hasse

Johann Adolph Hasse (baptised 25 March 1699 – 16 December 1783) was an 18th-century German composer, singer and teacher of music.

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John Frederick Lampe

John Frederick Lampe (born Johann Friedrich Lampe; probably 1703 – 25 July 1751) was a musician and composer.

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John Gower

John Gower (c. 1330 – October 1408) was an English poet, a contemporary of William Langland and the Pearl Poet, and a personal friend of Geoffrey Chaucer.

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John Lennon

John Winston Ono Lennon (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 19408 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter and musician.

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Latin literature

Latin literature includes the essays, histories, poems, plays, and other writings written in the Latin language.

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Libretto

A libretto (an English word derived from the Italian word libretto) is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical.

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Luigi Da Porto

Luigi Da Porto (1485 in Vicenza – 10 May 1529) was an Italian writer and historiographer, better known as the author of the novella Historia novellamente ritrovata di due giovani amanti (Newly found story of two noble lovers), with the story of Romeo and Juliet, later reprised by William Shakespeare for his famous drama. Pyramus and Thisbe and Luigi Da Porto are Romeo and Juliet.

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Luis de Góngora

Luis de Góngora y Argote (born Luis de Argote y Góngora;; 11 July 1561 – 24 May 1627) was a Spanish Baroque lyric poet and a Catholic prebendary for the Church of Córdoba.

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Lysander (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

Lysander is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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Masuccio Salernitano

Masuccio Salernitano (1410–1475), born Tommaso Guardati, was an Italian poet. Pyramus and Thisbe and Masuccio Salernitano are Romeo and Juliet.

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Mechanical (character)

The mechanicals are six characters in A Midsummer Night's Dream who perform the play-within-a-play Pyramus and Thisbe.

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The Metamorphoses (Metamorphōsēs, from μεταμορφώσεις: "Transformations") is a Latin narrative poem from 8 CE by the Roman poet Ovid.

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Morus (plant)

Morus, a genus of flowering plants in the family Moraceae, consists of 19 species of deciduous trees commonly known as mulberries, growing wild and under cultivation in many temperate world regions.

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Nick Bottom

Nick Bottom is a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream who provides comic relief throughout the play.

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Ninus

Ninus (Νίνος), according to Greek historians writing in the Hellenistic period and later, was the founder of Nineveh (also called Νίνουπόλις "city of Ninus" in Greek), ancient capital of Assyria.

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Origin myth

An origin myth is a type of myth that explains the beginnings of a natural or social aspect of the world.

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Ovid

Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known in English as Ovid, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus.

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Paphos

Paphos (Πάφος; Baf) is a coastal city in southwest Cyprus and the capital of Paphos District.

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Party wall

A party wall (occasionally parti-wall or parting wall, shared wall, also known as common wall or as a demising wall) is a wall shared by two adjoining properties.

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Paul McCartney

Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer, songwriter and musician who gained worldwide fame with the Beatles, for whom he played bass guitar and shared primary songwriting and lead vocal duties with John Lennon.

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Piramo e Tisbe

Piramo e Tisbe is an opera in two acts, described by its composer as an intermezzo tragico, by Johann Adolf Hasse to a libretto by Marco Coltellini.

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Progymnasmata

Progymnasmata (Greek προγυμνάσματα "fore-exercises"; Latin praeexercitamina) are a series of preliminary rhetorical exercises that began in ancient Greece and continued during the Roman Empire.

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Pyramus and Thisbe Club

The Pyramus and Thisbe Society was founded (as the Pyramus and Thisbe Club) in 1974 to bring together surveyors and architects with a professional interest in party wall matters, especially related to the Party Wall etc. Act 1996.

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Renaissance

The Renaissance is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.

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Ringo Starr

Sir Richard Starkey (born 7 July 1940), known professionally as Ringo Starr, is an English musician, songwriter and actor who achieved international fame as the drummer for the Beatles.

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Roman mosaic

A Roman mosaic is a mosaic made during the Roman period, throughout the Roman Republic and later Empire.

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Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about the romance between two Italian youths from feuding families. Pyramus and Thisbe and Romeo and Juliet are fiction about suicide.

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Star-crossed

The terms "star-crossed" and "star-crossed lovers" refer to two people who are not able to be together for some reason. Pyramus and Thisbe and Star-crossed are Romeo and Juliet.

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Théophile de Viau

Théophile de Viau (159025 September 1626) was a French Baroque poet and dramatist.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

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The Daughter Also Rises

"The Daughter Also Rises" is the thirteenth episode of the twenty-third season of the American animated television series The Simpsons.

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The Decameron

The Decameron (Decameron or Decamerone), subtitled Prince Galehaut (Old Prencipe Galeotto) and sometimes nicknamed l'Umana commedia ("the Human comedy", as it was Boccaccio that dubbed Dante Alighieri's Comedy "Divine"), is a collection of short stories by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375).

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The Fantasticks

The Fantasticks is a 1960 musical with music by Harvey Schmidt and book and lyrics by Tom Jones.

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The Legend of Good Women

The Legend of Good Women is a poem in the form of a dream vision by Geoffrey Chaucer during the fourteenth century.

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The Simpsons

The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company.

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The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet

The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet is an English language narrative poem by Arthur Brooke, first published in 1562 by Richard Tottel, which was a key source for William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Pyramus and Thisbe and The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet are Romeo and Juliet.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramus_and_Thisbe

Also known as Pyramus, Pyramus & Thisbe, Pyramus And Thisby, Pyramus and Thisbē, Thisbe, Thisbe (Greek legend), Thisby.

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See also

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Ancient Cilicia

Babylon in fiction

Metamorphoses into bodies of water in Greek mythology

Mythological lovers

Romeo and Juliet

References