- TRAGEDY
- Losing your soulmate, but then you strike a deal where she can escape Hades as long as you lead her out without looking back at her, BUT THEN YOU LOOK BACK AT HER ANYWAY AND SHE HAS TO STAY IN HADES, for one
- It's no laughing matter
- Seven Against Thebes, for one
- Hamlet or "King Lear"
- Serious drama
- Hamlet genre
- Antigone, e.g.
- Play genre
- Work that ends badly
- Shakespearean genre
- Kind of play
- Drama genre
- Anagram of "gyrated"
- Sad story
- It "delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain," according to Shelley
- Of which Melpomene is the Muse.
- The Salesman is one.
- Melpomene's sphere.
- Death of a Salesman, for instance.
- Hamlet, for instance.
- King Lear, for instance.
- What the buskin symbolizes.
- Hamlet is one
- Euripidean work
- Hard blow
- Timon of Athens, e.g.
- Coriolanus or "Richard III"
- Julius Caesar, for one
- Antigone or "Elektra"
- Disaster
- What's denoted by a frowning mask
- Shakespeare work
- Hamlet or "Julius Caesar"
- Genre of "Hamlet" and "Oedipus Rex"
- King Lear, for one
- Hamlet, for one
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