Mermaid Tavern

American  

noun

1. an inn formerly located on Bread Street, Cheapside, in the heart of old London: a meeting place and informal club for Elizabethan playwrights and poets.

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Example Sentences

For a realist to attempt it means disturbing innumerable hallowed myths�principally the vague one that Shakespeare, Marlowe and their fellows said ods bodikins and talked blank verse in the Mermaid Tavern.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the Mermaid Tavern all the wits used to gather.

From English Literature for Boys and Girls by Marshall, H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth)

Bread Street was just off Cheapside, where the Mermaid Tavern stood, and where Beaumont, Fletcher, Ben Jonson and other roysterers often lingered and made the midnight echo with their mirth.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors by Hubbard, Elbert

Perhaps, too, he may have thought of some of his battles of wit with Ben Jonson in the Mermaid Tavern.

From How Shakspere Came to Write the Tempest by Kipling, Rudyard

A figure like foot-feathered Mercury, Tall, straight and splendid, waving his plumed hat To Ben, and taking his last look, I felt, Upon our Mermaid Tavern.

From Collected Poems Volume Two by Noyes, Alfred