Question 1040 • Crowley Credit Recovery Algebra II B
Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England.Eight years later Francis Langley erects the Swan on a site nearby; and in 1596 Richard Burbage builds the Blackfriars Theatre, an indoor venue, although it does not open its doors until 1599. Most important of all, Shakespeare, Richard and Cuthbert Burbage, and their partners dismantle The Theatre and remove its beams to a new site at Southwark, where it is rebuilt in 1599 as the Globe. When Edward Alleyn builds the Fortune on the northern edge of the city in 1600, the array of Elizabethan theaters is complete.
Answer
A
by using a humorous and lighthearted tone.
B
by randomly listing when certain theaters were built in the past.
C
by using a grave and critical tone.
D
by listing in chronological order when several important theaters were built.
Explanation
The excerpt names theaters and gives the years associated with their construction or opening: the Swan, Blackfriars, the Globe, and the Fortune. These events are presented in chronological order, from the earlier theaters to the Fortune in 1600. The passage’s approach is a straightforward timeline, not a humorous or critical discussion.
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