| DONJUAN | Fictional libertine who is the subject of a play by Moliere, an opera by Mozart and a poem by Byron (3,4) |
| EPICURUS | A religious hypocrite (after the protagonist in a play by Moliere) |
| SCHWARZKOPF | Soprano Elisabeth ____’s best-known roles were in operas by Mozart and Richard Strauss |
| WYE | Immortalised in paintings by J. M. W. Turner and a poem by William Wordsworth, a river and a valley of the same name in an AONB containing Tintern Abbey and Symonds Yat (3) |
| NAIF | A poem by Byron ultimately artless |
| LOTHARIO | '[H]aughty, gallant' libertine who seduces and betrays the virtuous Calista in Nicholas Rowe's 1703 tragedy The Fair Penitent (8) |
| IDOMENEO | An opera by Mozart (8) |
| FIGARO | Principal character in an opera by Mozart (1786) (6) |
| SEVILLE | Setting of a play by French polymath Pierre Beaumarchais and subsequent opera by Gioachino Rossini which is the capital of Andalusia (7) |
| ANTIGONE | The daughter of Oedipus - and subject of a play by Sophocles (8) |
| WOOLF | Alluded to in the title of a play by Edward Albee, the author of Mrs Dalloway and essay A Room of One's Own (5) |
| PERICLES | Prominent and influential Greek statesman, orator and general of Athens during the Golden Age, subject of a play written at least in part by William Shakespeare |
| ELECTRA | Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra in Greek mythology; subject of a play by Euripides (7) |
| ORESTES | Son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra in Greek mythology; subject of a play by Euripides (7) |
| PHAEDRA | Wife of Theseus, subject of a play by Racine |
| FEDORA | Name of a play by Victorien Sardou that was given to a style of felt hat with a "pinched" crown (6) |
| MISANTHROPE | The ___, 1666 play by Moliere subtitled The Cantankerous Lover (11) |
| EDGAR | Forename of the writer, Poe, whose poem Tamerlane is said to be inspired or influenced by Byron (5) |
| JOANOFARC | French subject of a play by George Bernard Shaw (4,2,3) |
| DANTON | Georges, 18c French revolutionary leader, subject of a play by Georg Buchner (6) |
