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It's not that special, but it does have some features of interest.

1. Mark Antony makes a very well-known and famous speech commencing with "Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears!"

2. Other lines, such as "it was Greek to me", or "cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war" are also pretty famous.

3. Julius Caesar is a well-known guy, and this is the most famous literary treatment of his life and death.

4. It is often chosen for study in schools because it has the fewest dirty jokes or references to sex in it of any of Shakespeare's plays. Its dulness in this respect is partially redeemed by the onstage murder and suicides.

5. It is a political argument for Dictatorship, against the use of revolution, against the value of the popular will in politics. Col. Gaddafi would love the message of this play. Naturally it was particularly popular in Victorian England and postwar America.

Its use as a school text, its classical subject and its political content have given it a notoriety greater than other plays by Shakespeare and others which are better.

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