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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 ...
Frontispiece of The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet. The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet is a narrative poem by Arthur Brooke, first published in 1562 by Richard Tottel, which was a key source for William Shakespeare ’s Romeo and Juliet. [1] It is a translation and adaptation of a French story by Pierre Boaistuau, itself derived ...
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 ...
Context. Shakespeare's sonnets are considered a continuation of the sonnet tradition that swept through the Renaissance from Petrarch in 14th-century Italy and was finally introduced in 16th-century England by Thomas Wyatt and was given its rhyming metre and division into quatrains by Henry Howard. With few exceptions, Shakespeare's sonnets ...
Queen Mab. Queen Mab is a fairy referred to in William Shakespeare 's play Romeo and Juliet, where "she is the fairies' midwife". Later, she appears in other poetry and literature, and in various guises in drama and cinema. In the play, her activity is described in a famous speech by Mercutio published originally in prose and often adapted into ...
Count Paris. Mercutio ( / mərˈkjuːʃioʊ / mər-KEW-shee-oh, [1] Italian: Mercuzio) is a fictional character in William Shakespeare 's 1597 tragedy, Romeo and Juliet. He is a close friend to Romeo and a blood relative to Prince Escalus and Count Paris. As such, Mercutio is one of the named characters in the play with the ability to mingle ...
Nurse ( Romeo and Juliet) Nurse (. Romeo and Juliet. ) The Nurse is a character in William Shakespeare 's classic drama Romeo and Juliet. She is the personal servant, guardian, and former wet nurse of Juliet Capulet, and has been since Juliet was born. She had a daughter named Susan who died in infancy, and then became wetnurse to Juliet.