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Pyramus and Thisbe ( Ancient Greek: Πύραμος καὶ Θίσβη, romanized : Pýramos kaì Thísbē) are a pair of legendary, ill-fated lovers from Babylon whose story forms part of Ovid 's Metamorphoses. The story has been retold by many authors. Pyramus and Thisbe's parents, driven by rivalry, forbade their union, but they communicated ...
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. " A rose by any other name would smell as sweet " is a popular adage from William Shakespeare 's play Romeo and Juliet, in which Juliet seems to argue that it does not matter that Romeo is from her family's rival house of Montague. The reference is used to state that the names of things do not ...
Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene V Romeo and Juliet is sometimes considered to have no unifying theme, save that of young love. Romeo and Juliet have become emblematic of young lovers and doomed love. Since it is such an obvious subject of the play, several scholars have explored the language and historical context behind the romance of the play. On their first meeting, Romeo and Juliet use a ...
Sonnet 12. Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence. Sonnet 12 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a procreation sonnet within the Fair Youth sequence. In the sonnet, the poet goes through a series of images of mortality, such as a clock, a withering flower, a barren tree and ...
Star-crossed. The phrase "star-crossed lovers" was coined in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The terms " star-crossed " and " star-crossed lovers " refer to two people who are not able to be together for some reason. These terms also have other meanings, but originally mean that the pairing is being "thwarted by a malign star" or that the stars ...
The Butterfly Lovers is a 2008 Hong Kong film based on the legend, but in a wuxia setting, directed by Jingle Ma and starring Wu Chun and Charlene Choi. The Butterfly Lovers: Leon and Jo ( 蝴蝶夢－梁山伯與祝英台) is an 2004 Taiwanese animated film directed by Tsai Min-chin, voice-played by Elva Hsiao, Rene Liu, and Jacky Wu. [16]
Romeo and Juliet, TH 42, ČW 39, is an orchestral work composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It is styled an Overture-Fantasy , and is based on Shakespeare 's play of the same name . Like other composers such as Berlioz and Prokofiev , Tchaikovsky was deeply inspired by Shakespeare and wrote works based on The Tempest and Hamlet as well.
Roméo et Juliette (English: Romeo and Juliet) is an opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, based on Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. It was first performed at the Théâtre Lyrique (Théâtre-Lyrique Impérial du Châtelet), Paris on 27 April 1867. This opera is notable for the ...