The Mermaid Tavern was a London tavern, east of St. Paul's Cathedral, which operated during the Elizabethan era. It was the meeting place of the so-called Friday Street Club, which included several of the era's literary luminaries. A possibly apocryphal tradition holds that William Shakespeare was a member, often debating Ben Jonson and usually winning.
Mermaid Tavern in "We Haven't Got There Yet"[]
In 1606, William Shakespeare was drinking in the Mermaid Tavern when he learned of the pending performance of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at the Rose.
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