Some early Elizabethan tragedies betray evidence of a Senecan influence; Gorboduc (1561) is notable in this regard.

Andrew Gurr, one of the play's modern editors, notes that the play "has that anomaly amongst Elizabethan tragedies, an original plot."

If Hobbes's imagery suggests the landscape of an Elizabethan tragedy, you've grasped the guiding spirit of political realism.

A revival of an Elizabethan domestic tragedy, Heywood's "Woman Killed With Kindness" will be put on at the end of October.

Shakespeare's Elizabethan tragedies (including the history plays with tragic designs, such as Richard II) demonstrate his relative independence from classical models.

The Marlovian, heroic mode of the Elizabethan tragedies is gone, replaced by a darker vision of heroic natures caught in environments of pervasive corruption.

Other critics see resemblances to Greek or Elizabethan tragedy.

In any case it had been ridiculous, he thought, to envisage Pirrie as a figure out of an Elizabethan tragedy.

What keeps me is a passive curiosity, it's like an Elizabethan tragedy or a horror movie, I know which ones will be killed but not how.

Not too many characters got out of these Elizabethan tragedies alive.