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One New York publisher has estimated that 50,000 to 60,000 people in the United States want an anthology that includes the complete works of William Shakespeare. And what accounts for this renewed…

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One New York publisher has estimated that 50,000 to 60,000 people in the United States want an anthology that includes the complete works of William Shakespeare.
And what accounts for this renewed interest in Shakespeare? As scholars point out, his psychological insights into both male and female characters are amazing even today.
This paragraph best supports the statement that
  1. Shakespeare's characters are more interesting than fictional characters today.
  2. People even today are interested in Shakespeare's work because of the characters.
  3. Academic scholars are putting together an anthology of Shakespeare's work.
  4. New Yorkers have a renewed interest in the work of Shakespeare.

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Correct answer: B - People even today are interested in Shakespeare's work because of the characters.
The passage explains renewed interest in Shakespeare through his psychological insight into his characters, so people are still interested in his work because of the characters. It is a US-wide estimate, not about New Yorkers; the claims that his characters are more interesting than today's and that scholars are compiling an anthology are not stated.

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