July 1, 2008
Students reading a second folio of Shakespeare's plays published in 1632
Shakespeare enthusiasm heated up at Exeter this spring. The recent donation of a 1632 collection of the bard's plays has allowed students to experience Shakespeare in a new way – through reading and touching a book that was published a mere 16 years after Shakespeare's death. The book, generously donated by Rip Noble '58, was delivered with a clear wish – that it be actively used by students, not kept in a vault, unseen.
Noble's wishes came true almost immediately. Instructor Ellen Wolff told two sections of lower English to "expect a surprise." When Jacquelyn Thomas, Academy Librarian, and Andra Crawford, Special Collections Librarian, arrived in class with a large book bag, the students looked perplexed. "You're about to have the most
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