King Lear, Macbeth, and most of Antony and Cleopatra in quarantine during a plague outbreak. (No all-new Netflix Originals or Amazon Prime Video documentaries to distract him, eh?)In 1665, Isaac Newton found himself working from home following the closure of Cambridge University during the Bubonic plague.
After sticking blunt needles into his eye (seriously) and watching apples fall from trees for a bit, he managed not only to explain gravity, but also to develop theories on optics and calculus that irrevocably changed our understanding of the universe.
Not bad considering all we've managed to do today is upload an Instagram story and watch three episodes of Unforgotten on ITV Hub.
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