This paper aims to review women’s sexuality, marriage, and death motif through various forms of Renaissance tragedy, including domestic tragedy, revenge tragedy and doomed-love tragedy. It will make special reference to Othello, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Cleopatra, and The Duchess of Malfi. Even though cultural, social, and economic development in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries brought about new social constructions and conceptions of gender which regarded the women as having an equal relationship with the male, the men, with the patriarchal belief system, nevertheless considered the women to be the ‘other’, and unjustly maintained power over the women. Under the patriarchal system, female characters who tried to declare their love, humanity, and identity-which were acts of romantic self-realization against social conventions- lost their lives. But they played some important role in motivating male characters’ spiritual transformation. (Hanseo University)