Critical quotes based on love and Appearance vs reality and the play in general

Ghose

Hamlets life is filled with many identities. However at the end of the play he realises he has no true identity as a person

Mack

The most pervasive of Shakespare’s image pattern evolved around the words” sho”, “act” and “play”

Freud

Hamlet was behaving as dreams do in reality, concealing the true circumstances under a cloak of wit and unintelligibility

Bradley 

Hamlet’s love was not only mingled with bitterness, it was also weaken and deadened by his melancholy 

Miller

For Gertrude, passionate love is a binding, reckless emotion that leads her to do foolish things. This drags down her whole family and kingdom

Voltaire

Vulgar and barbarous drama

Beerbohm Tree

they key comic element of the play is madness 

Spurgeon 

The number of images to sickness, disease the idea of an ulcer or tumour, as descriptive of the unwholesome condition of Denmark morally