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Ovid's Metamorphoses Book IV

Story of Pyramus and Thisbe

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The story of the star-crossed Babylonian lovers appears in Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream where they meet nightly at a wall.
Thisbe, by John William Waterhouse 1909.

Thisbe, by John William Waterhouse 1909.

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Pyramus and Thisbe communicated with each other through a chink in the wall. This painting shows the side on which Thisbe talked and listened.

John William Waterhouse (April 6, 1849 – February 10, 1917) was an English Pre-Raphaelite painter who focused mainly on females.

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