...ladies watching "The Nine Worthies" in Love's Labors Lost; Theseus, Hippolyta, and the lovers watching "The most lamentable comedy and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisbe" in A Midsummer Night's Dream; Christopher Sly beginning to go to sleep at The Taming of the Shrew....

...treats on, then read the names of the actors, and so grow to a point QUINCE. Marry, our play is the 'The most lamentable comedy and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisbe." (PYRAMUS is pronounced like Paramus, as in New Jersey!) BOTTOM. (Enthusiastically.) A very good piece...

...read the names of the actors; and so grow to a point. [Sitting down again] QUINCE: Marry, our play is The Most Lamentable Comedy and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe. BOTTOM: [Jumping up and applauding] A very good piece of work, I assure you, and a merry. Now, good...

...play-within-the play Summary The craftsmen meet with Quince, the director, to assign the roles for the play — "The most lamentable comedy and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisbe" — they are going to present at the revel in honor of Theseus' and Hippolyta's wedding during the...

...about, then read the names of the actors and thereby get to the point QUINCE Certainly. Our play is "The Most Lamentable Comedy and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe." BOTTOM And a very good piece of work, I assure you, very fine. Now, good Peter Quince, call out the...

...first see them they are embarking on the task of translating into stage action the preexisting script of The Most Lamentable Comedy and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe, and we are left in no doubt that they find the task difficult. The first stage is the assignment of the...

...perform a bad play is nearly indestructible, even when played by amateurs, and the ridiculous performance of "The most lamentable comedy and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisby" is merely the ultimate delight in a constantly rewarding two hours in the theater. Shakespeare...

...good Peter Quince, say what the play treats on, then read the names of the actors. QUINCE Our play is "The Most Lamentable Comedy, and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe." (Note: pronounced Pier-uh-muss and Thiz-bee.) JESSIE Comedy and Death in the same play? This should...

...'interlude' (1.2.5 and 5.1.154) and as a 'comedie', despite its obviously tragic content, as in its title, 'The Most Lamentable Comedy and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe' (1.2.11-12, italics mine), is an attempt in his own muddled way to be true to what he thinks he has...

...and Ovid ROGER DALRYMPLE ABOUT a century and a half before Shakespeare's 'rude mechanicals' portrayed 'the most lamentable comedy and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisbe' the Norfolk-based romance writer John Metham laid the same scene before an East Anglian readership.1...