Mantua

Genre/Style: Balladry

Touchstones: Silversher & Silversher, “Gummi Bears”; Bolousova, Ostinelli, Klein, “Toss a Coin to Your Witcher”

Themes:

Myth: Pyramus and Thisbe via Romeo and Juliet

Notable Telling: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Metamorphoses 4.55-166 (8 AD)

Notable Adaptation: William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (1597)

Read Ovid's version of the myth in Latin at the Perseus Project
Read A.S. Kline's English translation at the University of Virginia's Ovid Collection
Read Shakespeare's adaptation at the Folger Shakespeare Library