This question is missing the answer choices. I have found the complete question online. Since the passage is the same, I will omit it:
What was the most direct cause of the more passionate performances:
A. The play The Spanish Tragedy
B. The new verse forms and conceptual framework
C. The collaboration of Kyd and Marlowe
D. The play Tumberlaine the Great
Answer:
The most direct cause of the more passionate performances was:
B. the new verse forms and conceptual framework.
Step-by-step explanation:
Ian Mortimer is a British historian born in 1967. In his book "The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England," Mortimer describes what life was like In Elizabethan England in vivid detail - all of its beauty as well as all of its issues.
In this particular excerpt, we can easily find a cause-and-effect relationship. We are told that actors were now able to perform more passionately. According to the author, the causes for that are new verse forms and the new conceptual framework of tragedies. With the former, actors can speak with greater "resonance and meaning". Therefore, they can impact the audience more effectively. With the latter, "powerful emotions" could now be portrayed. With that in mind, the best option is letter B.