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by Hans Baldung, gen. Grien (1484-1545) - Gemaldgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Note: Pyramus and Thisbe lived in Babylon anddeveloped a strong passion for each other.
The story became immortalized by Ovid and rekindled as Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare.
The translation of Ovid's "Metamorphoses" by A. D. Melville is another outstanding original
contribution - " ... she, the fairest girl of all ... wedding torches would have flamed but for their father's ban ... "
When Pyramus mistakenly thought that Thisbe was killed, he committed suicide. When Thisbe
discovered Pyramus, she impaled herself on his sword. When a great artist elaborates on a theme already developed by another, a question of plagiarism arises.
Clearly Shakespeare and Goethe, among others, were inspired by the work of other great artists but
neither "Romeo and Juliet" nor the story of "Faustus" degrade the work of Ovid or Milton.
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