Hamlet

act 1 scene 5

why does hamlet warn his friends that he plans "to put an antic disposition on?" what is an antic dispostition?

 

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Hamlet is telling his friends that they should never let on that his antic disposition (craziness) isn't real, but rather a reaction to what he has learned. 

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