The Isle of Dogs

Definition

Theater

• A comedy by Ben Jonson and Thomas Nashe, first performedin 1597 by Pembroke's Men at the Swan Theatre. The work, now lost,led to a temporary closure of the theater and the imprisonment ofthe two authors and several others on charges of producing a "seditiouscomedy".

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