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

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

So from "Tales of a Mermaid Tavern":   "… and of that other Ocean   Where all men sail so blindly, and misjudge   Their friends, their charts, their storms, their stars, their           God!"

From Giant Hours with Poet Preachers by Stidger, William L. (William Le Roy)

To him has been ascribed the institution, at the beginning of the seventeenth century, of the Mermaid Tavern meetings in Bread Street, Shakespeare's, Jonson's, Beaumont's, Fletcher's, Selden's, Cotton's, Camden's, and Donne's club.

From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by Stebbing, W. (William)

Sir Thurstan had given us instructions to put up at the Mermaid Tavern, near the harbor, and there we accordingly stabled our beasts and made arrangements for our own accommodation.

From In the Days of Drake by Fletcher, J. S. (Joseph Smith)