Thisby

She did not care about the rumors, which her cousins, Maud, Countess of Wickham, and her pie-faced daughters, Desdemona and Thisby, had been kind enough to recount during a morning call two weeks before.

Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010

She did not care about the rumors, which her cousins, Maud, Countess of Wickham, and her pie-faced daughters, Desdemona and Thisby, had been kind enough to recount during a morning call two weeks before.

Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010

You know: the secret lovers meet at night, but on her way to the assignation Thisby sees a lion, runs off affrighted, and leaves her scarf for the lion to mangle.

Champagne : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

Pyramus happens on the scarf and thinking Thisby a goner, slays himself.

Champagne : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

Thisby happens on slain Pyramus, slays herself, etc.

Champagne : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

Brown is hysterical as Flute, the Bellows-Maker, a rubber-faced peasant who plays the female Thisby in the play-within-a-play that the local town tradesmen are putting on in competition for the Duke.

Archive 2007-07-01 Jacqueline T Lynch 2007

The ridiculous Pyramus and Thisby play-within-a-play they perform is one of my favorite moments in Shakespeare, and Britten's version, with its parodies of everybody from Donizetti to Schoenberg, is one of the greatest and definitely the funniest stretch of music he ever composed.

Britten's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" sfmike 2007

The ridiculous Pyramus and Thisby play-within-a-play they perform is one of my favorite moments in Shakespeare, and Britten's version, with its parodies of everybody from Donizetti to Schoenberg, is one of the greatest and definitely the funniest stretch of music he ever composed.

Archive 2007-04-01 sfmike 2007

Brown is hysterical as Flute, the Bellows-Maker, a rubber-faced peasant who plays the female Thisby in the play-within-a-play that the local town tradesmen are putting on in competition for the Duke.

A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) Jacqueline T Lynch 2007

Some man or other must present Wall: and let him have some plaster, or some loam, or some rough-cast about him, to signify wall; and let him hold his fingers thus, and through that cranny shall Pyramus and Thisby whisper.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream 2004