| CORIOLANUS | Tragedy by Shakespeare (10) |
| OTHELLO | Tragedy by Shakespeare |
| MACBETH | Tragedy by Shakespeare |
| ROMEO | Depicted on screen by Leslie Howard, Leonardo DiCaprio and Orlando Bloom, the male half of a pair of ill-fated lovers in a tragedy by Shakespeare (5) |
| CAESAR | "Julius ___"; tragedy by Shakespeare |
| HAMLET | Tragedy by Shakespeare (6) |
| CRESSIDA | 'Troilus and --', tragedy by Shakespeare (8) |
| JULIUS | Roman tragedy by Shakespeare (6,6) |
| TROILUS | --- and Cressida, tragedy by Shakespeare (7) |
| ANDRONICUS | 'Titus ---', tragedy by William Shakespeare (10) |
| OEDIPUSREX | 1927 Opera-oratorio by Igor Stravinsky based on a tragedy by Sophocles (7,3) |
| CHANGELING | The ?, Jacobean tragedy by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley featuring the characters Alsemero and Jasperino (10) |
| ANDROMACHE | Athenian tragedy by Euripides that dramatises the heroine's life as a slave after the events of the Trojan War |
| THEDUCHESS | Revenge tragedy by John Webster whose characters include Antonio Bologna (3,7,2,5) |
| TITUSANDRONICUS | Tragedy by William Shakespeare (5,10) |
| KINGLEAR | Tragedy by William Shakespeare rewritten by poet laureate Nahum Tate later in the 17th century with a happy ending |
| DUNCAN | King murdered by Macbeth in the tragedy by William Shakespeare (6) |
| ANTONY | "...and Cleopatra", tragedy by William Shakespeare (6) |
| CLEOPATRA | Antony And ---, tragedy by William Shakespeare (9) |
| TIMONOFATHENS | 1606 tragedy by William Shakespeare (5,2,6) |
