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The Romeo and Juliet story probably owes its start to the story of Pyramus and Thisbe in Ovid's Metamorphoses. It went through a half-dozen storytellers before it got to Shakespeare. Shakespeare knew the original too--he put it into his play A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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Q: Which myth is parallel to William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet?
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