{"id":1446102,"date":"2020-12-31T14:30:24","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T19:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=1446102"},"modified":"2021-06-01T09:00:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T13:00:34","slug":"everything-that-happened-in-2020-summed-up-in-shakespeare-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/everything-that-happened-in-2020-summed-up-in-shakespeare-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything That Happened in 2020, Summed Up in Shakespeare Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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2020 is finally over, and all I have to say is this: what in God’s name just happened? It was February and then I blinked and it was December, and it feels like I lived a thousand lives in between. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So for anyone who is feeling similarly unmoored and befuddled and wants to remember what happened this year (I don’t know why you would, but life is a rich tapestry and to each their own), here are the many catastrophes and occasional triumphs of 2020 summed up in Shakespeare quotes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we were all excited for 2020 but there were already wildfires in Australia doing irreparable damage:<\/strong>
\u201cYet you began rudely.\u201d
\u2014Twelfth Night<\/em>, Act 1, Scene 5<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Meghan Markle and Harry announced they were leaving the Royal Family on Instagram:<\/strong>
\u201c[Exeunt Duchess.]”
\u2014Henry VI, Part II<\/em>, Act 2, Scene 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Donald Trump was impeached by the House but ultimately acquitted by the Senate:<\/strong>
“Come on then, and remove him.”
\u2014Cymbeline<\/em>, Act 4, Scene 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Parasite<\/em> won Best Picture at the Oscars:<\/strong>
\u201cDream of success and happy victory!\u201d
\u2014Richard III<\/em>, Act 5, Scene 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When coronavirus first hit the news and the prevailing advice was \u201cJust wash your hands\u201d:<\/strong>
\u201cOut, damned spot! out, I say!\u201d
\u2014Macbeth<\/em>, Act 5, Scene 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And when we realized it was an airborne virus: <\/strong>
“[All put on their masks.]\u201d
\u2014Much Ado About Nothing<\/em>, Act 2, Scene 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Sarah Palin was on The Masked Singer<\/em> and we all had some fun with that for a minute:<\/strong>
\u201cThis news distracts me!\u201d
\u2014The<\/em> Merry Wives of Windsor<\/em>, Act 2, Scene 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When countries started rolling out lockdown orders to flatten the curve:<\/strong>
\u201cHell itself breathes out 
Contagion to this world.\u201d
\u2014Hamlet<\/em>, Act 3, Scene 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Skype somehow lost the video call wars to Zoom despite having a decade-long head start:<\/strong>
“But how, but how?\u201d
\u2014Antony and Cleopatra<\/em>, Act 1, Scene 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Elon Musk and Grimes named their kid X \u00c3\u2020 A-12:<\/strong>
\u201cO, be some other name! 
What’s in a name?\u201d
\u2014Romeo and Juliet<\/em>, Act 2, Scene 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When they tore down Confederate statues as a result of ongoing protests against police violence:<\/strong>
\u201cA good riddance.\u201d
\u2014Troilus and Cressida<\/em>, Act 2, Scene 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Trump refused to condemn white supremacists:<\/strong>
\u201c’Twas you incensed the rabble.\u201d
\u2014Coriolanus<\/em>, Act 4, Scene 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When some people got to hunker down but others had to keep going to work:<\/strong>
\u201cThe nobles they are fled, the commons they are cold.\u201d
\u2014Richard II<\/em>, Act 2, Scene 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the Pentagon confirmed the existence of UFOs and we all said \u201cNot now, we’re busy\u201d:<\/strong>
\u201cThe 
day is hot, and the weather, and the wars, and the 
king, and the dukes: it is no time to discourse.\u201d
\u2014Henry V<\/em>, Act 3, Scene 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the wildfires in California quickly got out of control:<\/strong>
“The land is burning.\u201d
\u2014Henry IV, Part I<\/em>, Act 3, Scene 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When everyone in Trump’s circle tested positive for coronavirus:<\/strong>
\u201cThey are infected; in their hearts it lies; 
They have the plague.\u201d
\u2014Love’s Labour’s Lost<\/em>, Act 5, Scene 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the election results took days because the bulk of votes were mail-in:<\/strong>
\u201cI am to wait, though waiting so be hell.\u201d
\u2014Sonnt 28, ln. 799<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Donald Trump lost the election:<\/strong>
\u201c[Exit Clown.]\u201d
\u2014Othello<\/em>, Act 3, Scene 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we got to watch Trump lose the election multiple times: \u00a0<\/strong>
\u201cO wonderful, wonderful, most wonderful wonderful, and yet \u00a0
again wonderful, and after that, out of all whooping!\u201d
\u2014As You Like It<\/em>, Act 3, Scene 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a variant of COVID-19 started popping up:<\/strong>
\u201cSure the gods do this year connive at us.\u201d
\u2014The Winter’s Tale<\/em>, Act 4, Scene 4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When anyone asked \u201cHow are you?\u201d at any point this year:<\/strong>
\u201cSo weary with disasters.\u201d
\u2014Macbeth<\/em>, Act 3, Scene 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How we’re feeling going into 2021:<\/strong>
\u201cOnce more unto the breach, dear friends, once more.\u201d
\u2014Henry V<\/em>, Act 3, Scene 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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