{"id":1399115,"date":"2019-09-11T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T16:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1399115"},"modified":"2021-05-13T10:26:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T14:26:14","slug":"14-shakespearean-ways-to-answer-the-question-how-was-your-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/14-shakespearean-ways-to-answer-the-question-how-was-your-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"14 Shakespearean Ways to Answer the Question “How Was Your Summer?”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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If you did something really fun over the summer, you can go right ahead and skip this article. Just leave the way you came. The rest of us are going to be scratching our brains trying to come up with different ways to say \u201cGood, I guess,\u201d \u201cIt was fine,\u201d and \u201cI just didn’t leave the house for three months, thanks for asking.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or you could simply let Shakespeare do the talking. Here’s how you should answer the question \u201cHow was your summer?\u201d according to the Bard of Avon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you feel like summer lasted all of five minutes, you reply:
<\/strong>\u201cSwift as a shadow, short as any dream.\u201d
\u2014A Midsummer Night’s Dream<\/em>, Act 1, Scene 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you had a miserable summer job, you reply:
<\/strong>\u201cIt was vile and bad.\u201d
\u2014The Comedy of Errors<\/em>, Act 5, Scene 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you watched the trailer for Tom Hooper’s upcoming adaptation of Cats<\/em>, you reply:
<\/strong>\u201cO, woe is me,
To have seen what I have seen!\u201d
\u2014Hamlet<\/em>, Act 3, Scene 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you didn’t have air conditioning, you reply:
<\/strong>[Aside.<\/em>] \u201cToo hot, too hot!\u201d
\u2014The Winter’s Tale<\/em>, Act 1, Scene 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you slept for like 80% of it, you reply:
<\/strong>\u201cI enjoy’d the golden dew of sleep.\u201d
\u2014Richard III<\/em>, Act 4, Scene 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you watched the rise and fall of Jeremy Renner’s app<\/a> happen in real time, you reply:
<\/strong>\u201cIt was a disaster of war that Caesar himself could not have prevented.\u201d
\u2014All’s Well That Ends Well<\/em>, Act 3, Scene 6<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you spent the entire summer watching The Great British Bake-Off, you reply<\/em>:
<\/strong>\u201cI wasted time, and now doth time waste me.\u201d
\u2014Richard II<\/em>, Act 5, Scene 5<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you spent a lot of time outside, you reply:
<\/strong>\u201cFull of moths.\u201d
\u2014Coriolanus<\/em>, Act 1, Scene 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you thought you were going to have a Hot Girl Summer but all you accomplished was eating unprecedented amounts of Cheetos at ungodly hours, you reply:
<\/strong>\u201cOft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises.\u201d
\u2014All’s Well That Ends Well<\/em>, Act 2, Scene 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want to cultivate an air of mystery around what you did, you reply:
<\/strong>\u201c\u2018Tis neither here nor there.\u201d
\u2014Othello<\/em>, Act 4, Scene 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you didn’t do any of the summer reading, you reply:
<\/strong>\u201cSummer’s lease hath all too short a date.\u201d
\u2014Sonnet 18, ln. 4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you love warm weather and you’re already dreading the snow, you reply:
<\/strong>\u201cNow is the winter of our discontent.\u201d
\u2014Richard III<\/em>, Act 1, Scene 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If your summer was sweaty and boring but there were also good things like Detective Pikachu<\/em> and Lil Nas X on Twitter, you reply:
<\/strong>\u201cThe web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.\u201d
\u2014All’s Well That Ends Well<\/em>, Act 4, Scene 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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