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Thisbe

/ ˈθɪzbɪ /

noun

  1. See Pyramus and Thisbe

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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.

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Members of the group Uprising of the Last Generation glued themselves to Nicolas Poussinthe’s 1651 painting “Landscape during a Thunderstorm with Pyramus and Thisbe” at the Staedel Museum in Frankfurt on Wednesday.

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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.

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I don’t mean that figuratively: The actor mimes his arrival in “Pyramus and Thisbe” as if it’s by motorcycle.

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The script itself is lost, save for a few pages from the Pyramus and Thisbe section.

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