Historical clue formulations

• Like the ending of "Hamlet" or "King Lear" — 2025-03-03
• Very unfortunate — 2021-01-09
• Like many Shakespeare plays — 2019-01-04
• Star-crossed, say — 2018-07-27
• "How sad" — 2013-04-14
• Like some irony — 2010-05-26
• Like "King Lear" — 2009-08-19
• Heartbreaking — 2005-08-22
• Like "Aida" — 2004-05-02
• Like "King Lear" — 2002-11-12
• Like "Macbeth" — 2002-03-10
• Calamitous — 2002-01-08
• Like "Othello" — 2000-08-10
• With 98-Down, Oedipus and Willy Loman — 1998-11-01
• Like "Romeo and Juliet" — 1998-04-16
• Calamitous — 1995-07-12