 His "Romeo and Juliet" is influenced by the story of Pyramus and Thisbe ("Metamorphoses" Book IV); and, in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", a band of amateur actors performs a play about Pyramus and Thisbe.Shakespeare's early erotic poem "Venus and Adonis" expands on the myth in Book X of the "Metamorphoses".In "Titus Andronicus", the story of Lavinia's rape is drawn from Tereus' rape of Philomela, and the text of the "Metamorphoses" is used within the play to enable Titus to interpret his daughter's story.