Word Ladder #12 – Shakespearean Tragedies

The Bard wrote many tragedies, but these four are considered the “major tragedies.”
Word ladder rules: each word resembles the word above it, more or less.
Answers must correspond to the highlighted box.
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. - William Shakespeare.
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Tragedy #1: Prince of Denmark.
Hamlet
Eggy entrée.
Omelet
Stick used to hit a xylophone.
Mallet
Sugary treat: marsh______.
Mallow
Donovan hit song: “______ Yellow.”
Mellow
Telephone salutation.
Hello
Tragedy #2: The Moor of Venice.
Othello
Movie title: “_____ People’s Money.”
Other
Song title: “_____ She Is, Miss America.”
There
Head-topping growth.
Hair
Song title: “California, ____ I Come.”
Here
Lascivious look.
Leer
Tragedy #3: He had three daughters.
King Lear
2-word anagram of above. ____ Tahoe, Wedding ____.
Lake Ring
LA BB player.
Laker
Prepare to meet thy _____.
Maker
“He ______ me to lie down in green pastures” (KJV).
Maketh
Tragedy #4: Scottish regicide and his wife.
Macbeth
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