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Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England.

The queen continues to encourage dramatic art, personally attending performances at Gray’s Inn, Greenwich Palace, and Whitehall Palace. In 1583 she establishes her own theater company, the Queen’s Men, and leading actors flock to it. Puritans are enraged, and the following year the city authorities try to outlaw plays altogether, both within and outside the city walls. But now that drama has received royal approval, they don’t stand a chance.

What was the most direct effect of the establishment of the Queen’s Men?

New plays were written every year.
The queen visited Whitehall Palace.
The Puritans were outraged.
Drama received royal approval.

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Drama received royal approval.

Explanation: By creating her own theater company, the queen personally endorsed drama, giving it royal approval (as the passage explicitly states).