Read the following excerpt from an article by a literary critic. Shakespeare wrote Julius Caesar during a time of great
political upheaval. Indeed, the queen who reigned when he
crafted the play, Elizabeth I, was the daughter of a queen
whose life ended, like that of so many political figures from
the English Reformation, on the execution block.
In Julius Caesar, the character Cassius asks, after the
assassination of Caesar, "How many ages hence / Shall
this our lofty scene be acted over / In states unborn and
accents yet unknown!" He is clearly anticipating
Shakespeare's own time.
Which statement most accurately describes the inference the author is
making and the historical context on which the inference is based?