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ID: LSAT-LR-071
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Strengthen
Difficulty level: Medium

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Critic: The play now attributed to Marlowe's circle is by a single author. Its five acts share a vocabulary far narrower than that of any collaborative play of the period, the same four metrical habits run from the first scene to the last, and no character's name is spelled two ways anywhere in it. The play runs to some two thousand eight hundred lines.

Which one of the following, if true, most strengthens the argument?

AThe play survives in a single printed edition, with no rival text against which its readings might be checked.

BCollaborative plays of the period were usually written act by act, with each author drafting whole acts alone and rarely revising another's.

CConsistent spelling in a printed play often reflects the compositor, who imposed the habits of his own shop on whatever manuscript reached him, rather than the hand that wrote it.

DMarlowe himself is known to have collaborated on at least two plays, and the writers around him worked in pairs as readily as they worked alone.

EThe play's vocabulary is narrower than that of most solo plays of the period as well, so its narrowness sets it apart from solo and collaborative work alike.

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