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Shakespeare’s Characters Sum Up Their Pandemic Life and Misquote Their Own Quotes

Ah! This era of perpetual pantslessness.

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Macbeth in Macbeth:
Out, out brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow inside home, a poor employee
That struts and frets his hour in the meeting,
and then is heard no more. Anyway, it was a meeting
set up by an idiot, full of sound and bossy fury,
Signifying nothing.

Lear in King Lear
When we are born again, we cry, that we are come
To this great era of perpetual pantslessness.

Duke Senior in As You Like It
And this our life, exempt from public haunt
Finds happiness in sourdough bread, confidence in
wild yeast,
And good in everything starting with ‘equal parts flour and water.’

Cassius in Julius Caesar
I cannot tell what you and other men
Think of this life; but, for my single self,
I live in awe of my couch, curly fries
And Spongebob Squarepants series.