Critical Reasoning

Theater Critic: The play La Finestrina, now at Central Theater, was written in Italy in the eighteenth century.
The director claims that this production is as similar to the original production as is possible in a modern
theater. Although the actor who plays Harlequin the clown gives a performance very reminiscent of the
twentieth-century American comedian Groucho Marx, Marx's comic style was very much within the comic
acting tradition that had begun in sixteenth-century Italy.

The considerations given best serve as part of an
argument that
(A) modern audiences would fi nd it hard to tolerate
certain characteristics of a historically accurate
performance of an eighteenth-century play

(B) Groucho Marx once performed the part of the
character Harlequin in La Finestrina

(C) in the United States the training of actors in the
twentieth century is based on principles that do
not differ radically from those that underlay the
training of actors in eighteenth-century Italy

(D) the performance of the actor who plays
Harlequin in La Finestrina does not serve as
evidence against the director's claim

(E) the director of La Finestrina must have advised
the actor who plays Harlequin to model his
performance on comic performances of
Groucho Marx

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