At the end of the year he and Keira Knightley portray the tragic lovers in the film adaptation of the Ian McEwan novel "Atonement."

Arthur Davies plays her tragic lover, Don José -'ringingly passionate' as he has rightly been described.

He easily transformed from a fat little Italian with oily hair, to Don Jose, the noble soldier and tragic lover.

Used by German composer Richard Wagner as example of tragic lovers in his opera Tristan and Isolde.

It was obvious from the outset at Saturday night's performance that Laurent Hilaire and Susan Jaffe were admirable dancers as the tragic lovers.

And if she were to do so, would this restore a heart Casanova claims is broken, changing him from rake into redeemed tragic lover?

Humaira and Mehmood are the latest tragic lovers in the news.

He changes from an adolescent dreamer into a youth in quest of a purpose; in a moment of epiphany, the tragic lover transforms into an idealistic patriot.

Legend has it a dolphin once helped to reunite a pair of tragic lovers.

The romance between Emil and Marie and their death alludes to the similarly tragic lovers, Pyramus and Thisbe, from Ovid's book Metamorphoses.