#comps exams

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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

14/133

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The desk carnage after my phone meeting with my comps supervisor.

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Well, I did it. I took my comprehensive exams yesterday.

Now I just have to wait to hear if I passed or not.

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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

25/131 (I didn’t finish the Shax yet, but I’m about halfway through)

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Hey, early modern grad students/enthusiasts: anyone happen to know of a solid summary of Philip Sidney's New Arcadia? I'm reading it for comps but I want to make sure that I'm actually following the plot (and Google has been decidedly unhelpful on the summary front).

If you know one, please throw it in the comments/reblog with the link - I'd really appreciate it!

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

(from What You Will: Gender, Contract, and Shakespearean Social Space by Kathryn Schwarz)

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It took me an unnecessarily long time to take notes on Edward the First, so no real updates. Here’s a picture of my cat trying to keep me from reading the Henry VI plays instead.

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Tentatively set an exams date for the week after Thanksgiving and it feels really good to have a solid date I'm working toward tbh.