| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.126 | Why look you still so stern and tragical? | Why looke you still so sterne, and tragicall? |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.105 | So must my voice be tragical again, | So must my voice be tragicall againe, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.57 | And his love Thisbe; ‘ very tragical mirth.’ | And his loue Thisby; very tragicall mirth. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.58 | Merry and tragical? Tedious and brief? | The. Merry and tragicall? Tedious, and briefe? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.66 | And ‘ tragical ’, my noble lord, it is, | And tragicall my noble Lord it is: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.7 | Will prove as bitter, black, and tragical. | Will proue as bitter, blacke, and Tragicall. |