William Shakespeare at the Mermaid Tavern

William Shakespeare sits at a wooden table in a dimly lit Mermaid Tavern on Bread Street in London, holding a pewter tankard with a fireplace glowing in the background.

A chiaroscuro painterly film still of William Shakespeare holding a pewter tankard at a table in the Mermaid Tavern by warm firelight See more

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