2. PART B: Which detail from the text best supports the answer to Part A?
A. "But, in 1642, during the English Civil War, the theaters of London were closed
by order of the government and remained so for 18 years. By the time they
reopened in 1660, styles had changed." (Paragraph 2)
B. "The court of the new king wanted a more elegant, refined, classical world, and
Shakespeare struck them as coarse in his language and careless in his plots."
(Paragraph 2)
"But it was the great French author Voltaire who truly popularized Shakespeare
beyond English shores in the 1730s. From that time onward, Shakespeare's
works have been extensively studied and performed around the world."
(Paragraph 6)
D. "Still others were transposed into stories in a completely different land and
culture such as Ran (1985), a Japanese tale of samurai based mostly on King
Lear." (Paragraph 8)