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

The National once more after a lapse of years has its Loveman, a belated Elizabethan who could have walked into the Mermaid Tavern and proved a congenial soul to Kit Marlowe and friend Will.

From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)

Souls of Poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?

From The Principles of English Versification by Baum, Paull Franklin

The Mermaid Tavern, in Cheapside, was the favourite resort of the great Elizabethan dramatists and poets.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward

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)