Theatre

Quote

Character

Act/Scene

“The most lamentable comedy and cruel death of Pyramus and Thisby.”

Quince

Act I, Scene II

“ ‘A tediuous brief scene of young Pyramus / And his love Thisby; very tragical mirth.’ / Merry and tragical? tedious and brief? / That is hot ice and wondrous strange snow. / How shall we find the concord of this discord?”

Theseus

Act V, Scene I

“Indeed he hath played on this prologue like a child on a recorder – a sound, but not in government.”

Hippolyta

Act V, Scene I