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 Adaptations: William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1595-6), The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (1597)