Pyramus And Thisbe And Romeo And Juliet

Everyone knows the play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, but maybe it was a modern spin-off of an even older tale during the Elizabethan Era. Ovid wrote the story “Pyramus and Thisbe” a hundred years before Shakespeare wrote the play Romeo and Juliet. The two are very alike in plot and substance, so much so that sometimes it can seem that Shakespeare was unoriginal in his entirety. From forbidden love to sneaky lovers, and even gruesome deaths the stories are alike to an extreme.

Publius Ovidius Naso, who is more commonly known as Ovid, was a Roman poet during the reign of Augustus. Ovid wrote the short story of “Pyramus and Thisbe”, which is a tale of two forbidden lovers separated by a wall, that try to be together and instead of living happily ever after they die horrid deaths. William Shakespeare was a master of the arts who danced around in poetry, playwriting, and acting. A hundred years after Ovid wrote his story of forbidden lovers, Shakespeare wrote his own very famous play that is commonly known by the name of Romeo and Juliet.

There are many points throughout the plot where connections can be made. You can make connections through the behavior of the characters when told they are not allowed to be together. As well as how the actions of other people played a role in their deaths and how their own actions were a cause of the others death. Even how the leading females react versus the leading males of the stories.

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