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Camelot’s once and future king, Richard Harris, is playing the title role in his own free-form adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”--in Scranton, Pa., for the moment. His fellow Romans are mostly students. “It’s the opportunity of a lifetime,” said Mary Kay Rohlfing of Warminster, a senior at the University of Scranton who played Caesar’s wife, Calpurnia. Harris’ all-embracing version of the tragedy incorporates the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Anwar Sadat and ends with the atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki.

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