{"id":1442061,"date":"2019-12-26T10:00:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/?p=1442061"},"modified":"2019-12-27T12:18:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T17:18:55","slug":"everything-that-happened-in-2019-summed-up-in-shakespeare-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/everything-that-happened-in-2019-summed-up-in-shakespeare-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything That Happened In 2019, Summed Up In Shakespeare Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/122019everythingin2019shakespeareMAIN.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We really went through it this year, didn&#8217;t we? From the birth of Baby Yoda to that incredibly divisive <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> finale, 2019 was a year of firsts, of lasts, and of good old-fashioned Kardashian drama. And the hits just keep on coming! We might yet have more plot twists in store, but here&#8217;s everything that&#8217;s happened as of the publishing of this article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re curious (and why wouldn&#8217;t you be?), here&#8217;s everything that happened in \u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/2016\/12\/12\/shakespeare-quotes-to-describe-the-year-2016\" target=\"_blank\">2016<\/a>, \u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/2017\/12\/12\/shakespeare-quotes-that-sum-up-the-year-2017\" target=\"_blank\">2017<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/everything-that-happened-in-2018-summed-up-in-shakespeare-quotes\/\">2018<\/a>. You&#8217;re welcome!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When Netflix and Hulu released Fyre Festival documentaries within days of each other:<\/strong><br> I hear their drums: let&#8217;s set our men in order,<br> And issue forth and bid them battle straight.<br> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/shakespeare\/henry6pt3\/\">Henry VI Part 3<\/a>, Act 1, scene 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When the college admissions scandal broke:<\/strong><br> And therefore hath she bribed the Destinies\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<br> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/shakespeare\/life-and-times\/narrative-poems\/venus-and-adonis\/\">Venus and Adonis<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When Trump got impeached:<\/strong><br> And so his peers upon this evidence<br> Have found him guilty of high treason.<br> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/shakespeare\/henryviii\/\">Henry VIII<\/a>, Act 2, scene 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When the <em>Sonic the Hedgehog<\/em> trailer was released, and the backlash was immediate:<\/strong><br> Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough <br> To mask thy monstrous visage?<br> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/shakespeare\/juliuscaesar\/\">Julius Caesar<\/a>, Act 2, scene 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When Keanu Reeves was suddenly in everything, and we were blessed with the Keanussaince:<\/strong><br> All the world&#8217;s a stage,<br> And all the men and women merely players.<br> They have their exits and their entrances,<br> And one man in his time plays many parts.<br> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/shakespeare\/asyoulikeit\/\">As You Like It<\/a>, Act 2, scene 7<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When Tom Hooper&#8217;s adaptation of <em>Cats<\/em> hit theaters:<\/strong><br> O horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart <br> Cannot conceive nor name thee!<br> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/shakespeare\/macbeth\/\">Macbeth<\/a>, Act 2, scene 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When Sony and Marvel went to war over Spider-man:<\/strong><br> Two households, both alike in dignity,<br> In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,<br> From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,<br> Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.<br> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/shakespeare\/romeojuliet\/\">Romeo and Juliet<\/a>, Act 1, prologue<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When young activists like Greta Thunberg began demanding action on climate change:<\/strong><br> For, I believe, they are portentous things <br> Unto the climate that they point upon.<br> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/shakespeare\/juliuscaesar\/\">Julius Caesar<\/a>, Act 1, scene 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When dozens of people stormed Area 51 in search of aliens:<\/strong><br> Search out thy wit for secret policies, <br> And we will make thee famous through the world.<br> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/shakespeare\/henry6pt1\/\">Henry VI Part I<\/a>, Act 3, scene 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When Colton Underwood jumped the fence on The Bachelor and ran off, forcing producers to chase after him:<\/strong><br> Unsavoury news! but how made he escape?<br> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/shakespeare\/henry6pt3\/\">Henry VI Part 3<\/a>, Act 4, scene 6<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When 30-50 feral hogs became a meme:<\/strong><br> Come on, come on; where is your boar-spear, man? <br> Fear you the boar, and go so unprovided?<br> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/shakespeare\/richardiii\/\">Richard III<\/a>, Act 3, scene 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When Boris Johnson became Prime Minister:<\/strong><br> That&#8217;s the worst tidings that I hear of yet.<br> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/shakespeare\/henry4pt1\/\">Henry IV Part 1<\/a>, Act 4, scene 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When Elon Musk introduced the shatter-proof cyber-truck and it immediately got shattered:<\/strong><br> Oft expectation fails and most oft there<br> Where most it promises.<br> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/shakespeare\/allswell\/\">All&#8217;s Well That Ends Well<\/a>, Act 2, scene 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> ended not with a bang, but with a whimper:<\/strong><br> Parting is such sweet sorrow.<br> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/shakespeare\/romeojuliet\/\">Romeo and Juliet<\/a>, Act 2, scene 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We really went through it this year, didn&#8217;t we? 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