#MISSING_WORD-1038Select Missing WordCore & AcademicHard

Question 39

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Listen to the recording: Critics often analyze Elizabethan drama purely as art, overlooking that the theater was a ruthless commercial business. Playwrights relied heavily on ticket sales, necessitating a product that appealed to a highly stratified society. The plays had to satisfy the intellectual demands of the educated elite while simultaneously providing broad entertainment for the groundlings standing in the yard. This economic reality dictated an eclectic mix of styles, as a successful dramatist could not afford to write for one group and ...
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