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Educational Videos for Students (Cartoons on Bullying, Leadership & More)

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William Shakespeare for Kids (Fun Facts about William Shakespeare Cartoon)

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Object Details

Description

This bound volume contains The Plays of William Shakespeare Volume V, published by Bellamy and Robarts of London in 1791. This was number five of eight volumes, and contained four of Shakespeare's plays-Anthony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, and Macbeth.

The Copp Collection contains about 150 books of early American imprint and shows a wide range of reading matter typical of a New England Puritan family living in a port town. Literacy was expected of many New Englanders, as Puritan doctrine required everyone to read the Bible. The abundance of multiple Bibles, psalms, hymnodies, sermons, and morality tales reflects the Copp's religious beliefs. Other highlights of the library include the works of Shakespeare, almanacs, historical and political texts, and travel narratives.

The Copp Collection contains a variety of household objects that the Copp family of Connecticut used from around 1700 until the mid-1800s. Part of the Puritan Great Migration from England to Boston, the family eventually made their home in New London County, Connecticut, where their textiles, clothes, utensils, ceramics, books, bibles, and letters provide a vivid picture of daily life. More of the collection from the Division of Home and Community Life can be viewed by searching accession number 28810.

Location

Currently not on view

Credit Line

Gift of John Brenton Copp

Measurements

overall: 1 3/8 in x 8 5/8 in x 5 3/8 in; 3.4925 cm x 21.9075 cm x 13.6525 cm

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The Plays of William Shakespeare | Smithsonian Institution

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Description This bound volume contains The Plays of William Shakespeare Volume V, published by Bellamy and Robarts of London in 1791. This was number five of eight volumes, and contained four of Shakespeare's plays-Anthony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, and Macbeth.

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5th Grade Strandards

ELAGSE5RL2: Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.

ELAGSE5RL3: Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact).

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John Webster | Life and Works of John Webster |The White Devil |The Duchess of Malfi | Revenge Play

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John Webster (born c. 1580, London, Eng.-died c. 1632) was an English dramatist whose Devil ( c. 1609- c. 1612) and The Duchess of Malfi ( c. 1612/13, published 1623) are generally regarded as the paramount 17th-century English tragedies apart from those of Shakespeare.

Little is known of Webster's life. His preface to Monuments of Honor, his Lord Mayor's Show for 1624, says he was born a freeman of the Merchant Taylors' Company. He was probably a coachmaker, and possibly he was an actor. Apart from his two major plays and The Devils Law-Case ( c. 1620; published 1623), his dramatic work consists of collaborations (not all extant) with leading writers. With Thomas Dekker, his main collaborator, he wrote Westward Ho (1604) and Northward Ho (1605), both of which were published in 1607. He is also believed to have worked to varying degrees with William Rowley, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher, John Ford, and perhaps Philip Massinger. Eight extant plays and some nondramatic verse and prose are wholly or partly his; the most standard edition is The Complete Works of John Webster, ed. by F.L. Lucas, 4 vol. (1927).

The White Devil, like Macbeth, is a tragedy of action; and The Duchess of Malfi, like King Lear, is a tragedy of suffering.

Encyclopaedia Britannica.

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John Webster | Jacobean, Jacobean Drama, Tragedy

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John Webster was an English dramatist whose The White Devil (c. 1609-c. 1612) and The Duchess of Malfi (c. 1612/13, published 1623) are generally regarded as the paramount 17th-century English tragedies apart from those of Shakespeare. Little is known of Webster's life. His preface to Monuments of