There's a stereotype about William Shakespeare, and John Andrews wouldn't stand for it.

"You've got to make the general public realize that Shakespeare isn't stuffy," said Andrews, an acclaimed Shakespeare scholar and longtime Santa Fe resident, according to a 1986 story in The Washington Post.

Andrews, a Carlsbad native with degrees from Princeton, Harvard and Vanderbilt universities, was no lightweight. He spent years teaching, leading programs at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., and founded and ran The Shakespeare Guild, a nonprofit. During his time in Washington, he edited the Shakespeare Quarterly , which his daughter, Lisa Hobart, described as a "super-dense" academic publication.

But above all, friends and former colleagues said, Andrews' desire was to bring

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