#comps reading

The longer I read, the more I’m realizing that early modern dramatists just specialized in weird

Reading: Robert Greene - Alphonsus, King of Aragon; Thomas Kyd - The Spanish Tragedy

[Niel M.] Maher writes that President Franklin Roosevelt pitched the Corps mostly as a jobs program. “The overwhelming majority of unemployed Americans, who are now walking the streets and receiving private or public relief, would infinitely prefer to work,” he told Congress.

The program was open only to unemployed, single men between ages eighteen and twenty-five (with the vast majority of the jobs going to white men). Because most workers in the program had no prior experience in conservation work—and often little to no work experience at all—the Corps took on projects that only required unskilled labor.

Finally got out of the apartment to do some work at a coffee shop! It was really productive until my only black pen died, so I switched to reading instead.

Reading: Anonymous - The True Tragedie of Richard the Third; George Peele - Edward the First; William Shakespeare - 2 Henry VI

Today in things I wasn't expecting to find in my comps reading

Chugging right along

Reading: Christopher Marlowe (and Thomas Nashe?) - Dido, Queen of Carthage

Made it to 1588 today

Reading: Christopher Marlowe - Tamburlaine the Great Part One; John Lyly - Endymion