Although the records of French playwright Molière’s early works are incomplete, we know that as a young man Molière worked with a traveling theater, La Troupe de Molière, from 1645 to 1658. Records from the time show that the troupe’s extensive repertoire included only three plays written by Molière himself: The Bungler, The Flying Doctor, and The Doctor in Love. Of these, the last seems likely to have been the first to have been truly successful—and most likely the one that that made Molière famous as a playwright, since the king of France became their patron after the troupe performed it for him upon their arrival in Paris.
Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?