Which of the following is most likely the reason the author includes the aside about the Puritans on page 19? A. To emphasize that 17th-century Salem was a place where modern conveniences were unknown.
B. To introduce the theme of religious reform to the play.
O C. To champion Catholicism and criticize the Puritans.
D. To provide context for the play's setting, and to draw a line between it and contemporary society

themselves

an intensive pronoun is a pronoun that ends in self or selves, such as himself, herself, themselves, yourself, ourselves. since band members is a third person plural, the correct intensive pronoun would be themselves. if the band was talked about as a collective noun, itself would be the appropriate intensive pronoun. intensive pronouns are used to add emphasis to the noun it's modifying which is why it directly follows it.

the emperor is made to look inferior next to faustus's power.

in my opinion i think it was not excessive at all. the maids turned against the queen in his absence, how could he ever trust them again? if he let them go they would surely spread the news of the suitor's deaths, which is much too risky. as for the suitors, they were selfish, rude, and greedy. the god's had apparently marked them for death, meaning odysseus made their death come faster.