Question ID:PT15 S3 Q2 Passage:Those who support the continued reading and performance of Shakespeare’s plays maintain that in England appreciation for his work has always extended beyond educated elites and that ever since Shakespeare’s own time his plays have always been known and loved by comparatively uneducated people. Skepticism about this claim is borne out by examining early eighteenth-century editions of the plays. These books, with their fine paper and good bindings, must have been far beyond the reach of people of ordinary means. Stem:Which one of the following describes a reasoning error in the argument? Correct Answer Choice:EChoice A:The argument uses the popularity of Shakespeare’s plays as a measure of their literary quality. Choice B:The argument bases an aesthetic conclusion about Shakespeare’s plays on purely economic evidence. Choice C:The argument anachronistically uses the standards of the twentieth century to judge events that occurred in the early eighteenth century. Choice D:The argument judges the literary quality of a book’s text on the basis of the quality of the volume in which the text is printed. Choice E:The argument does not allow for the possibility that people might know Shakespeare’s plays without having read them.