Shakespeare fans gathered at the Gertrude C. Ford Center for Performing Arts to see the First and Second Folio in addition to a lecture.
Senior theater major Jerry McCalpin said it was a chance to see history in person.
“It’s so weird to see something that’s 500 years old,” McCalpin said. “It’s just so important. It’s important to me because that’s a piece of history that is slowly deteriorating.”
Ole Miss alumnus Larry Wells earned his doctorate in literature and worked with Ford while she researched Shakespeare for her book.
“She would be happy with this,” Wells said. “I know she would be thrilled with this. This is what she had envisioned, to have Shakespeare events (at Ole Miss).”
Interim Chair and Associate Professor of Theater Arts Rene Pulliam said she will visit multiple times while the exhibit is on display.
“I think this is phenomenal,” Pulliam said. “(Shakespeare) taught us how to access emotions without losing ourselves to those same emotions.”
