Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright, and his contemporaries at the Mermaid Tavern. Engraving by John Faed, 1850. Standing at left (l to r): Josuah Sylvester, John Selden, Francis Beaumont. Seated at table (l to r): Thomas Sackville, William Camden, John Fletcher, Francis Bacon, Ben Johnson, Samuel Daniel, John Donne, William Shakespeare. Standing and seated at right (l to r): Walter Raleigh, Henry Wriothesley, Robert Cotton, Thomas Dekker

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Bacon Beaumont Camden Contemporaries Dekker Donne Elizabethan Faed Fletcher Mermaid Playright Raleigh Sackville Selden Southampton Tavern Wriothesley

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