Pyramus and Thisbe

American  

[pir-uh-muhs uhnd thiz-bee] / ˈpɪr ə məs ənd ˈθɪz bi /

plural noun

Classical Mythology.

1. two young lovers of Babylon who, in defiance of their parents, held clandestine conversations through a crack in a wall. On believing Thisbe dead, Pyramus killed himself. When Thisbe discovered his body, she took her own life.

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Pyramus and Thisbe British  

/ ˈpɪrəməs-, -ˈθɪzbɪ /

noun

1. (in Greek legend) two lovers of Babylon: Pyramus, wrongly supposing Thisbe to be dead, killed himself and she, encountering him in his death throes, did the same

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Pyramus and Thisbe

A good deal of the acting of the students within the play recalls the rude mechanicals in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” bumbling through the tale of Pyramus and Thisbe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2024

The Pyramus and Thisbe play, so often a bit of a bore, is a hoot, too, and I loved Snout's top-heavy, endlessly toppling wall.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 8, 2013

If “The Walking Dead” is “Lost” with zombies and a high kill rate, “Warm Bodies” is effectively a riff on every teenage romance ever told, from Ovid’s Pyramus and Thisbe on.

From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2013

He also adapted Georges Feydeau's "Private Fittings" for the La Jolla Playhouse in California and a symphonic version of "Pyramus and Thisbe" for the Kennedy Center.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 6, 2012

In Babylon, the great and wonderful city on the Euphrates, there lived in two adjoining houses a youth and a maiden named Pyramus and Thisbe.

From Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) by Various