Thisbe
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
She said they set out to tell the story of Luisa Calderon, the best-known of Picton's victims, as well as two other slaves - Present and Thisbe.
From BBC • Aug. 1, 2022
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
Among the Bard's several plays within plays, the most enjoyable is Pyramus and Thisbe, as staged by the Athenian mechanicals to celebrate the mass marriage that ends A Midsummer Night's Dream.
From The Guardian • May 25, 2012
“It is I, your Thisbe, your dearest,” she cried to him.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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