| Ham II.ii.458 | [Hamlet to First Player, quoting lines about Pyrrhus] a tyrannous and a damned light |
| KL III.iv.144 | [Gloucester to Lear, of Gonerill and Regan] their injunction be to bar my doors / And let this tyrannous night take hold upon you |
| R3 IV.iii.1 | [Tyrrel alone, of killing the Princes] The tyrannous and bloody act is done |
| RJ I.i.170 | [Benvolio to Romeo] Alas that love, so gentle in his view, / Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof! |