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

Mermaid Tavern, verses on, see ‘Lines on the Mermaid Tavern’

From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney

Suppose, for instance, that you were to go into the tap-room of the Mermaid Tavern some winter evening during the reign of the, so to speak, Good Queen Bess.

From The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces by Kilmer, Joyce

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

Those who conspired at the Mermaid Tavern to send brave argosies of wit trafficking on a bluer sea than ever sailed Drake's galleons were playwrights to a man.

From Oscar Wilde A Critical Study by Ransome, Arthur