Gabriel Spenser, also spelt Spencer, (c. 1578 – 22 September 1598) was an Elizabethan actor. He is best known for episodes of violence culminating in...

Edmund Spenser (/ˈspɛnsər/; born 1552 or 1553; died 13 January O.S. 1599) was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical...

while Nashe managed to escape to Great Yarmouth. Two of the actors, Gabriel Spenser and Robert Shaw, were also imprisoned. A year later, Jonson was again...

of some people high in authority. Jonson was imprisoned, along with Gabriel Spenser, an actor in the play, and Robert Shaa. Langley, already in trouble...

raised the issue to the Privy Council on July 28. Three of the players (Gabriel Spenser, Robert Shaa, and Ben Jonson) were arrested and sent to Marshalsea...

dramatist Tony Way as Thomas Nashe, poet and satirist Alex Hassell as Gabriel Spenser Mark Rylance as actor Henry Condell playing narrator/chorus (Henry...

Sir John Borough, died from wound received in duel in France – 1590 Gabriel Spenser, Elizabethan actor, by Ben Jonson on Hoxton Fields, London – 1598 Sir...

Tarlton, who was a stalwart of the pre-Shakespearian stage. The actor Gabriel Spenser, who was killed by Ben Jonson in a duel. These, with others of their...

Jonson, playwright and poet – imprisoned for killing fellow actor Gabriel Spenser in a 1598 duel; freed by pleading benefit of clergy Jørgen Jørgensen...

the 1590s in England. Monarch – Elizabeth I 1590 Publication of Edmund Spenser's poetry The Faerie Queene and his satire Mother Hubbard's Tale. Publication...