Dispatch
Nine Hamlets
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The one about seeing Hamlet for the ninth time. Dispatch 34 begins with three missing dogs, a cold house, and a man returning from his ninth staged production of Hamlet. He knows the plot by heart. What he does not know—and what keeps bringing him back—is who he will be when he encounters it this time.
Beside the fireplace, the narrator revisits a character he has understood differently at…