| CORIOLANUS | Shakespeare tragedy based on the life of a legendary Roman leader |
| LEAR | King ---, Shakespeare tragedy based on the legend of a legendary pre-Roman monarch (4) |
| OTHELLO | Shakespeare tragedy based on the story A Moorish Captain (7) |
| ENCOUNTER | Brief - - -, romantic tragedy based on a Noel Coward work (9) |
| POWELL | Author of A Dance to the Music of Time whose wife Violet wrote A Jane Austen Compendium and The Life of a Provincial Lady (6) |
| FEARLESS | 2006 film based on the life of a martial artist in the last years of the Qing dynasty |
| ANDROCLES | Legendary Roman slave whose life was spared in the arena by a lion from whose paw he had extracted a thorn |
| GULLYBOY | 2020 movie which won 13 Filmfare awards, the most in history (as of 2021); it is based on the life of a Mumbai rapper (5,3) |
| MIRACLEPLAY | A medieval drama based on a biblical story or the life of a saint (7,4) |
| BURNSSUPPER | A celebration of the life of a famous Scottish poet, held on, or near, his birthday on January 25 (5,6) |
| LACLEMENZADITITO | 1791 Mozart opera based on the life of a Roman emperor (2,8,2,4) |
| CALAMITY | Musical based on the life of a real-life US frontierswoman, - - - Jane (8) |
| BIOPIC | A film based on the life of a famous person (6) |
| NESSIE | Nickname of a legendary beast said to inhabit the deep waters of a lake in the Scottish Highlands (6) |
| BEAUTIFULMIND | 2001 American biographical drama film starring Russell Crowe based on the life of a Nobel Laureate in Economics Josh Nash A ___: 2 wds. |
| IMITATIONGAME | The ___ American historical drama film from 2014 based on the life of a British mathematician Alan Turing: 2 wds. |
| PINERO | This 2001 biopic was based on the life of a Nuyorican poet-playwright (6) |
| TAMBURLAINE | Play by Christopher Marlowe based on the life of a Central Asian emperor (11) |
| POCAHONTAS | 1995 Walt Disney film based on the life of a Powhatan woman |
| EXISTENTIALDRE | Good title for a reflective book on the life of a rap Dr.? |
