It would have been extremely odd, even upon this showing, had one of [a woman] suddenly written the plays of Shakespeare, I concluded, and I thought of that old gentleman, who is dead now, but was a bishop, I think, who declared that it was impossible for any woman, past, present, or to come, to have the genius of Shakespeare. Woolf's diction can overall be described as - Group of answer choices D playful yet articulate, which strengthens claims that women can be as accomplished as men A thoughtful yet friendly, which disproves the claim that women are uneducated B formal yet comic, which adds evidence that women can be funny when uneducated C humorous yet foreboding, which clarifies her points about the bigotry women face