Historical clue formulations

• Not doing things the rite way? — 2022-09-06
• Activity for running mates? — 2016-01-16
• Leaving via ladder, perhaps — 2006-10-19
• Attempted activity in "The Barber of Seville" — 2005-03-13
• Like Romeo and Juliet in Act 2 — 2003-05-09
• Forestalling objections, you might say — 2002-01-27
• Like Romeo and Juliet, in Act II — 1997-01-03
• Running for one's wife? — 1994-12-16