"had Hamlet gone naturally to work, as we could suppose such a prince to do in parallel circumstances, there would have been an end to our play."
Mack - the cost of action
“[Hamlet] vacillates between undisciplined squads of emotion and thinking too precisely on the event. He learns to his cost how easily action can be lost in ‘acting’”
Coleridge - imbalance between real and imagination
Suggests Hamlet suffers because his imagination is full of corruption and decay which overpowers him. There is an imbalance between his perception of the world and the real world he lives in
