This study offers a metrical reconstruction of Hamlet by William Shakespeare through the lens of rhythmic, metrical and textual analysis. Henry de Vocht explores how the play’s metre, structure and verbal patterns can be re-imagined, examining variances between different early texts and offering an argument for a reconstruction that attempts to recover an original metrical shape. The work is aimed at scholars of Shakespeare’s textual transmission, verse-form and dramaturgy, placing emphasis on scansion, variant readings and formal coherence in the dramatic blank verse of one of Shakespeare’s major tragedies.

De Vocht Henry

Shakespeare's Hamlet, an attempt at a metrical reconstruction