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

They say she used to be seen at the Mermaid Tavern in London with all those play-acting people.

From A Parody Outline of History by Stewart, Donald Ogden

Sir Walter Raleigh founded a club at the "Mermaid Tavern," where, in addition to Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, together with many other dramatists of note, spent their leisure hours.

From William Shakespeare His Homes and Haunts by Forestier, A. (Amédée)

He is an author who has brought back to the world something of the copiousness, fancy, appetite, power, and unreason of the talk that, one imagines, was once to be heard in the Mermaid Tavern.

From Old and New Masters by Lynd, Robert

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