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.
Answer
A
Jonson becoming a playwright
B
Jonson and Nashe writing The Isle of Dogs
C
the clergy pardoning Jonson
D
the actor being killed in a duel
Explanation
The excerpt says Jonson and Thomas Nashe coauthored The Isle of Dogs, and that the play was so slanderous and offensive that the privy council ordered every theater in London to close. So the event connected to the theater closures is Jonson and Nashe writing the play.
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