Question

elizabethan england
becn 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?
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jonson and nashe writing the isle of dogs

jonson becoming a playwright

to see secular plays on historical
p and down the country by
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while unattached actors are
of 1572 specifically excludes
eing considered vagabonds.

the actor being killed in a duel

the clergy pardoning jonson

Explanation:

The text states that the privy council ordered the closure of all London theaters because the play The Isle of Dogs (coauthored by Jonson and Nashe) was slanderous and offensive. Other events (Jonson becoming a playwright, actor killed in a duel, clergy pardoning Jonson) are not linked to the theater closure in the passage.

Answer:

Jonson and Nashe writing The Isle of Dogs