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I think we can all agree that the year 2016 was just like a Thunderdome of terrible, \u00a0with everything \u00a0and everyone \u00a0duking it out for the honor of being the most<\/em> terrible. In Shakespeare’s \u00a0time, \u00a0people were contesting the rule of Queen Elizabeth, everyone \u00a0was dying of the plague, and no one was using toothpaste, so he gets it.<\/p>\n With that in mind, here are some quotes of his to sum up the year. (It’s a little more eloquent than just constantly using the face palm emoji.)<\/p>\n When there were killer clowns running amok for some reason: When various celebrities were having feuds and dragging all of us into it: When no one thought Brexit would actually happen: When David Bowie died: When Alan Rickman died four days later, and we all kind of realized what we were in for: When the Pokemon GO craze swept the nation for that one summer: When a gorilla was killed, and the memes went on for months: When you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing “Damn, Daniel!”: When the 2016 election cycle kept getting weirder and weirder: When it actually WAS played upon a stage because there were upwards of, like, twelve debates: When president-elect Donald Trump said no one has more respect for women than he does: When Prince died: When Muhammad Ali died: When Harper Lee, Arnold Palmer, Leonard Cohen, Elie Wiesel, and Anton Yeltsin died: Everyone at the beginning of this year: Everyone at the end of this year: Just 2016, in general: Looking for a pick-me-up after all that? Check out How to Flirt, According to Shakespeare<\/a>, or Shakespeare Quotes for When Your Relatives Ask What You’re Doing With Your Life<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I think we can all agree that the year 2016 was just like a Thunderdome of terrible, \u00a0with everything \u00a0and everyone \u00a0duking it out for the honor of being the most terrible. In Shakespeare’s \u00a0time, continue reading<\/span>
\n<\/b>“Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.”
\n\u2014The Tempest<\/i>, Act 1, Scene 2<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>“A plague o’ both your houses!”
\n\u2014Romeo and Juliet<\/i>, Act 3, Scene 1<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>“Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises.”
\n\u2014All’s Well That Ends Well<\/i>, Act 2, Scene 1<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>“Why?”
\n\u2014Antony and Cleopatra<\/i>, Act 2, Scene 7<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”
\n\u2014Hamlet<\/i>, Act 4, Scene 5<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>“Swift as a shadow, short as any dream;
\nBrief as the lightning in the collied night…”
\n\u2014A Midsummer Night’s Dream<\/i>, Act 1, Scene 1<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>“O, woe is me,
\nT’ have seen what I have seen, see what I see!”
\n\u2014Hamlet<\/i>, Act 3, Scene 1<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>“I have not deserved this.”
\n\u2014Othello<\/i>, Act 4, Scene 1<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>“If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.”
\n\u2014Twelfth Night<\/i>, Act 3, Scene 4<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>“A kind
\nOf excellent dumb discourse.”
\n\u2014The Tempest<\/i>, Act 3, Scene 3<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>“You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense.”
\n\u2014The Tempest<\/i>, Act 2, Scene 1<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>“Good night, sweet prince,
\nAnd flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!”
\n\u2014Hamlet<\/i>, Act 5, Scene 2<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>“For what is in this world but grief and woe?”
\n\u2014Henry VI, Part 3<\/i>, Act 2, Scene 5<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>“True is it that we have seen better days.”
\n\u2014As You Like It<\/i>, Act 2, Scene 7<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>“For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.”
\n\u2014Henry VI, Part 3<\/i>, Act 5, Scene 7<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>“Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay.”
\n\u2014Richard II<\/i>, Act 3, Scene 2<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>“It is a tale
\nTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
\nSignifying nothing.”
\n\u2014Macbeth<\/i>, Act 5, Scene 5<\/p>\n