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Lyle: Admittedly, modernizing the language of premodern plays lessens their aesthetic quality, but such modernizing remains valuable for teaching history, since it makes the plays accessible to students who would otherwise never enjoy them.
Carl: But such modernizing prevents students from understanding fully what the plays said to premodern audiences. Thus, modernizing plays is of no use for teaching history, because students cannot gain deep knowledge of the past from modernized plays.
20.
Which one of the following most accurately expresses a point of disagreement between Lyle and Carl?
a
whether modernizing the language of premodern plays results in plays that have different pedagogical value than the originals
b
whether the loss in aesthetic quality that results from modernizing the language of premodern plays lessens the plays' usefulness for teaching history
c
whether the highest form of aesthetic enjoyment of premodern plays comes from seeing them as they were originally performed
d
whether increasing the accessibility of premodern plays through modernizing their language is valuable for teaching history
e
whether using plays with modernized language to teach history requires that there be some loss in the aesthetic quality of the plays