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

It is difficult to persuade the average Shakespearian producer that Shakespeare, Arne, Sir Henry Bishop, and Horn were not great friends who used to meet daily at the Mermaid Tavern to discuss incidental music.

From Shakespeare and Music by Wilson, Christopher

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

From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by Keats, John

It was there the wits gathered together to talk, just as in the days of Ben Jonson they gathered at the Mermaid Tavern.

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

Lines on the Mermaid Tavern":   "Souls of poets dead and gone,    What Elysium have ye known,    Happy field or mossy cavern,    Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?

From Inns and Taverns of Old London by Shelley, Henry C. (Henry Charles)