Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 3, of The Tragedy of
Julius Caesar and the background information on the
allusion it contains.
Excerpt:
CASSIUS. There's a bargain made.
Now know you, Casca, I have moved already
Some certain of the noblest-minded Romans
To undergo with me an enterprise
Of honourable dangerous consequence.
And I do know by this, they stay for me
In Pompey's Porch. For now this fearful night
There is no stir or walking in the streets;
And the complexion of the element
In favour's like the work we have in hand,
Most bloody, fiery, and most terrible.
Background information:
The underlined lines are an example of a
O cultural allusion.
O historical allusion.
Oliterary allusion.
O religious allusion.