I’d argue that’s a directorial or meta-critical way of analyzing the text, not necessarily dramaturgical, even if it is in his mind from a dramatic irony point of view, internally, to the character, those are his given circumstances.
Fair point on Ur-Hamlet. Dated 1587, when Hamnet (the kid) would have been 2 or 3. Whereas Hamnet (the kid) died in 1896 and Hamlet (the play) was written 3 or 4 years later