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 pl
aywright, 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
