influencia de Shakespeare en el teatro grecolatino
This is an interesting webpage to understand why knowing Greek and Roman culture is so important nowadays and how this knowledge was also so important for Shakespeare at ancient times. Many of his most famous plays are based on Roman or Greek myths. Perhaps you did not know. Visit the link and you will discover how many authors studied the classical world, otherwise, they would not have been so famous.
Here you have the translation to the text which appears in the link above.
Along History many
literary masterpieces were written and they have been engraved due to their
originality and their passion with which they were written. However, many of
the acclaimed writers who are well-known nowadays such as the playwright
William Shakespeare, took mythological Greek legends to inspire and create
works such as Romeo and Juliet. This play in particular is based on the myth of
Pyramus and Thisbe a couple in love with the only inconvenient matter for them
that their families are enemies and also a wall which separates their houses
and they can only communicate with each other through a gap on it. The couple
decides to meet one night next to a natural spring in order to seal their love for ever without being discovered.
The beloved woman
arrives at the date earlier waiting for Pyramus, but suddenly a lioness, which
had just eaten a deer, appears to drink. Tisbe is afraid and ran to hide,
however while she is running away she loses her veil. The lioness starts
playing with it, tearing it and staining it with blood until she gets bored and
goes away.
At that moment
Pyramus is arriving to the meeting happily, however his happiness disappears
when he recognizes Thisbe’s veil. He is scared because he thinks that his
beloved woman has been killed by a beast.
The woman returns
to the scene where she finds her lover murdered by his own sword. She, deeply
sad and thinking that she cannot live without his love, also commits suicide
with the same sword as he used to take his life away.
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