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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

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An integral part of FDR's New Deal was the Civilian Conservation Corps, which focused on environmental conservation work.

[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.

(Maher’s book came out in 2009, if you want a long read on the topic)

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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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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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So I did, in fact, finish the drama before I started teaching, but then I stalled out on Shakespeare's sonnets and now I'm facing down Sidney's Defense of Poesy with absolute dread.

So I'm doing what any normal person would do and starting to plan out my bullet journal for next year.