Folger collected rare editions of Shakespeare the way Lindsay Lohan piles up DWI violations.

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As of July 1 he will be the new director of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.

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Today, it resides behind a thick steel door, down in the bowels of the Folger Shakespeare Library, in Washington, D.

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Ohio delegate Janet Folger disagrees, in a rare show of intra-party dissent.

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Actress Tate, 26, famed hairstylist Jay Sebring, 35, coffee fortune heiress Abigail Folger, 25, and two others died shortly after midnight on August 9, 1969, at a rambling house overlooking Benedict Canyon.

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It helps that Washington has such a diverse range of stage lovers: educated types who patronise the likes of the Shakespeare Theatre and the Folger, high-end production-philes at the National Theatre and niche performance-goers at the Pulitzer Prize-winning Studio.

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Both Blake Robison, director of the production now running at the Folger Elizabethan Theatre in Washington, DC, and Sam Mendes, who directs the Bridge Project's production at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, emphasise this aspect by opening their productions with the actor who plays the unfortunate Mamillius, the boy-prince who dies of grief, reading from a book of fairy tales.

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