This paper has been on my mind for 5 years. Analyzing 1.6k novels, it argues that there are six basic arcs for stories: 1/3
1 Rags to Riches (rise)
2 Riches to Rags (fall)
3 Man in a Hole (fall rise)
4 Icarus (rise fall)
5 Cinderella (rise fall rise)
6 Oedipus (fall rise fall)

Even cooler, you can visualize the arc of any story on Project Gutenberg with this link (Hamlet certainly checks out): 2/3 http://hedonometer.org/books/v3/1/ 

It inspired an ongoing project of mine, trying to categorize startup pitches into similar archetypes, to see whether certain arcs fit certain types of founders (though nothing to show yet - text analysis is hard!) The original paper is here: 3/3 https://epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10.1140/epjds/s13688-016-0093-1

The paper draws on Kurt Vonnegut’s master’s thesis on the shape of stories, nicely summarized in this infographic & article. https://www.openculture.com/2014/02/kurt-vonnegut-masters-thesis-rejected-by-u-chicago.html