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The " Pyramus and Thisbe " plot appears twice in Shakespeare's works.

Most famously, the plot of Romeo and Juliet, in which the titular characters, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, fall in love at a party the Capulet family hosts, but they cannot be together because the two families hold " an ancient grudge " ( which the young lovers ' deaths eventually quash ), and because Juliet has been engaged by her parents to a man named Paris.

Romeo and Juliet may draw either from Ovid's Latin retelling in the Metamorphoses, or from Arthur Golding's 1567 translation of that work.

Most modern tales of " forbidden love " are seen as having been based on Shakespeare's play, rather than " Pyramus and Thisbe.