Romeo and Juliet

Tragedy driven by familial obligation, honor, and delay — where Romeo acts too fast, Hamlet acts too slowly, and both die for it

Love destroyed by social forces and a character's fatal susceptibility — jealousy in Othello plays the role the feud plays in Romeo and Juliet

Direct adaptation: rival street gangs replace rival noble families, the racial dimension made explicit rather than latent

Inherited guilt and social structures that destroy the people caught between them; the feud logic transposed to a different culture and century

Written at the same time, shares the Pyramus and Thisbe inset play (a parody of Romeo and Juliet), uses the same young-lovers-defying-parents structure with opposite — comic — resolution

Forbidden love destroyed by social structures — Tolstoy's version of the same tragedy, with social convention as the feud