"Pyramus and Thisbe" was originally a Greek tragedy, involving two lovers, whose parents hated each other and the young lovers could only communicate through a crack in a wall.

Eventually, the lovers decide to elope and agree to meet under a mulberry tree. Thisbe (the girl) arrives first and sees a lioness with blood around her mouth. She is terrified and runs away. Shortly after Pyramus arrives at the tree, sees the lioness and Thisbe's veil, and assumes that Thisbe has been killed. Not wanting to live without her he falls on his sword,

Thisbe eventually returns and seeing that Pyramus was dead, she falls on the same sword.

Shakespeare parodies this tragedy turning it into a farce by casting rough artisans as the characters. Some are cast as inanimate objects, such as the wall, the tree, and the moon, using a "lanthorn" to represent the moon.

The play was the inspiration for Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet".

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