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The Mermaid Tavern was a drinking and dining establishment located between lower Bread Street and Friday Street, with entrances to both. Its location corresponds to the place between these two streets on current day London’s Cannon Street (Glinert).
diuers faire Innesand that the area was
wholely inhabited by rich Marchants(Stow 1598, sig. T5r). The Mermaid Tavern was not far from Old Fish Street and the Blackfriars Theatre (Chalfant).
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Playwright.
Writer and Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral. Father of
Third Earl of Pembroke. Son of
Poet and playwright.
Courtier, explorer, and author.
Playwright and poet.
Historian and author of
Member of the
Playwright. Buried at St. Saviour (Southwark).
Clergyman and writer.
Business person. Landlord of the Mermaid Tavern (Bread Street).
Explorer and historian.
Lawyer and writer.
Dramatic character in
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Bread Street ran north-south from the Standard (Cheapside) to Knightrider Street, crossing Watling Street. It lay wholly in the ward of Bread Street, to which it gave its name.
Friday Street passed south through Bread Street Ward, beginning at the cross in Cheapside Street and ending at Old Fish Street. It was one of many streets that ran into Cheapside Street market whose name is believed to originate from the goods that were sold there.
The city of London, not to be confused with the allegorical character (
The history of the two Blackfriars theatres is long and fraught with legal and political struggles. The story begins in
Middle Temple was one of the four Inns of Court
St. Paul’s Cathedral was—and remains—an important church in London. In
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The Mermaid Tavern was a drinking and dining establishment located between lower Bread Street and Friday Street, with entrances to both. Its location corresponds to the place between these two streets on current day London’s Cannon Street (Glinert).
diuers faire Innesand that the area was
wholely inhabited by rich Marchants(Stow 1598, sig. T5r). The Mermaid Tavern was not far from Old Fish Street and the Blackfriars Theatre (Chalfant). The first possible mention of a tavern with that name on Bread Street is in the will of an early fifteenth-century vintner named
mancion that is cleped the Mermaid in Bredstreete(Ackroyd). The first confirmed mention of the establishment during the Elizabethan period is in pamphlets associated with the Christmas revels of the Middle Temple in
The tavern is particularly associated with a number of important Elizabethan and Jacobean literary figures, most prominently
But that, which most doth take my Muse, and mee, / Is a pure cup of rich Canary-wine, / Which is the Mermaids, now, but shall be mine(Jonson ll.28-30). Student and devoted member of the
(Beaumont).what things have we seen / Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been / So nimble, and so full of subtile flame
Three Cranes, Miter, and Mermaid(Jonson).
The Mermaid has come to be synonymous with writers and their propensity to drink, and as a location it has stood in as a convenient marker for the literary brilliance of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century literature. As the supposed site of conversation, argument, and fraternity amongst
An host may gather in dark St. Paul’s / To salve their souls from sin; / But the Light may be where(Noyes).two or three/ Drink Wine in the Mermaid Inn