>>25065041
But Antigone also has bad luck in her own play, with an explicitly romantic plot of a lover finding his deceased beloved and committing suicide. No need to bring Oedipus into it.

The play doesn't follow unity of time and Shakespeare makes abundant use of humor to relieve the tension and to make it more acute when it comes back. While it does reflect the elements of those plays it's obvious that Shakespeare is totally ignoring Aristotle's Poetics which has gone out of fashion in drama, and thus leads to a rather different sort of a play, especially as it fluctuates between the lofty and poetic to the everyday, slang and vulgar. Romeo also doesn't just have bad luck, he's extremely impulsive due to his age which Shakespeare accentuates when he's introduced, a part that it became traditional to cut in Victorian performances because they were scandalized by Romeo being ready to die for a woman one minute and falling in love with another the next, but that's in keeping with Romeo being perhaps fourteen or fifteen

>>25066147
The plot of finding the beloved dead (except not really) and then killing yourself and before the beloved finds you dead and then killing themselves, is from Ovid. I don't think Shakespeare ever read Sophocles, his major sources doe literary inspiration were histories like Histories of the Kings of England, and besides that mostly Plutarch and Ovid.