Read the excerpt from the time traveler's guide to elizabethan england. By the end of the reign he [jonson] has married, had two children and lost one, tried to become an actor and failed, become a playwright, been arrested for a scurrilous play and released, killed another actor in a duel, been arrested again and put on trial for murder, and escaped hanging by pleading benefit of the clergy. The play for which he is arrested, the isle of dogs, coauthored with thomas nashe, is so slanderous and offensive that the privy council orders the closure not just of the play but of every theater in london. Which event most directly caused the council to order the closure of all theaters in london? Jonson becoming a playwright jonson and nashe writing the isle of dogs the clergy pardoning jonson the actor being killed in a duel

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Madalyn Armstrong

1 December, 10:14

Read the excerpt from the time traveler's guide to elizabethan england. By the end of the reign he [jonson] has married, had two children and lost one, tried to become an actor and failed, become a playwright, been arrested for a scurrilous play and released, killed another actor in a duel, been arrested again and put on trial for murder, and escaped hanging by pleading benefit of the clergy. The play for which he is arrested, the isle of dogs, coauthored with thomas nashe, is so slanderous and offensive that the privy council orders the closure not just of the play but of every theater in london. Which event most directly caused the council to order the closure of all theaters in london? Jonson becoming a playwright jonson and nashe writing the isle of dogs the clergy pardoning jonson the actor being killed in a duel

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Shamar · Answer 1

B) jonson and nashe writing the isle of dogs

Leila Casey · Answer 2

jonson and nashe writing the isle of dogs

It says in the excerpt that "the isle of dogs ... is so slanderous and offensive that the privy council orders the closure ... of every theater in London." While it is clear from the list of events that happened in his life, Jonson is not seen as a reputable person, his becoming a playwright and killing another actor in a duel did not cause the theaters to be shut down. The council closed the theaters because he wrote a play, which was to be performed, that was offensive. This in turn made the council shut down all the theaters so that the play could not be performed.