Thisbe





Jonh Waterhouse, 1909, Thisbe.
In the Ovidian version, Pyramus and Thisbe is the story of two lovers in the city of Babylon who occupy connected  houses/walls, forbidden by their parents to be wed, because of their parents' rivalry. Through a crack in one of the walls, they whisper their love for each other. The "Pyramus and Thisbe" plot appears twice in Shakespeare's works, most famously, the plot of Romeo and Juliet.