<P> In Shakespeare 's A Midsummer Night 's Dream ( Act V , sc 1 ) , written in the 1590s , a group of `` mechanicals '' enact the story of `` Pyramus and Thisbe '' . Their production is crude and , for the most part , badly done until the final monologues of Nick Bottom , as Pyramus and Francis Flute , as Thisbe . The theme of forbidden love is also present in A Midsummer Night 's Dream ( albeit a less tragic and dark representation ) in that a girl , Hermia , is not able to marry the man she loves , Lysander , because her father Egeus despises him and wishes for her to marry Demetrius , and meanwhile Hermia and Lysander are confident that Helena is in love with Demetrius . </P>
<P> In Shakespeare 's A Midsummer Night 's Dream ( Act V , sc 1 ) , written in the 1590s , a group of `` mechanicals '' enact the story of `` Pyramus and Thisbe '' . Their production is crude and , for the most part , badly done until the final monologues of Nick Bottom , as Pyramus and Francis Flute , as Thisbe . The theme of forbidden love is also present in A Midsummer Night 's Dream ( albeit a less tragic and dark representation ) in that a girl , Hermia , is not able to marry the man she loves , Lysander , because her father Egeus despises him and wishes for her to marry Demetrius , and meanwhile Hermia and Lysander are confident that Helena is in love with Demetrius . </P>
who wrote pyramus and thisbe in midsummer night dream
who wrote pyramus and thisbe in midsummer night dream
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