Sackerson

Sackerson was a famous brown bear which was baited in London's Beargarden in the late 16th century.^[1]

The bear appears in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor in which Slender boasts to Anne Page that, "That’s meate and drinke to me now: I have seene Sackerson loose, twenty times, and have taken him by the Chaine: but (I warrant you) the women have so cride and shrekt at it, that it past:"^[2]^: 103

Such bears were named after their owners. John Sackerson (1541–95) was the landlord of the Bear Inn in Nantwich and kept a stable of bears and so may have supplied this one.^[2]^: 105

References

^ Judith Woolf (2019), "Milkmaid Bears and Savage Mates", Anthrozoös, 32 (3): 305–318, doi: 10.1080/08927936.2019.1598650, S2CID 182759647
^ ^a ^b Nick de Somogyi (2011), "Shakespeare and the Three Bears", New Theatre Quarterly, 27 (2): 99–113, doi: 10.1017/S0266464X1100025X, S2CID 190684045

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[Woolf-1] Judith Woolf (2019), "Milkmaid Bears and Savage Mates", Anthrozoös, 32 (3): 305–318, doi: 10.1080/08927936.2019.1598650, S2CID 182759647

[3bears-2] Nick de Somogyi (2011), "Shakespeare and the Three Bears", New Theatre Quarterly, 27 (2): 99–113, doi: 10.1017/S0266464X1100025X, S2CID 190684045

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