Which sentence from the passage expresses the author's main purpose? 16 A.
"The queen's cousin, who would become King James I in 1603, wrote poetry himself when he was a young man."
B.
"Nowadays, every spring and summer, a series of plays, many written by Shakespeare, are performed and viewed at the new Globe."
C.
"Elizabethan theater faced many challenges and setbacks, but people's love of the art form helped it survive."
D.
"The Queen sometimes paid the money necessary to have a Shakespearean play performed for her at one of her palaces."