{{Short description|Bear}} [[File:Sackerson.jpg|thumb|right|"Sackerson loose" by Robert William Buss]] '''Sackerson''' was a famous brown bear which was baited in London's Beargarden in the late 16th century.{{r|Woolf}}
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:"{{r|3bears|p=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.{{r|3bears|p=105}}
==See also== * List of individual bears
==References== <references>
<ref name=3bears>{{citation |author=Nick de Somogyi |year=2011 |title=Shakespeare and the Three Bears |journal=New Theatre Quarterly |volume=27 |number=2 |pages=99–113 |doi=10.1017/S0266464X1100025X|s2cid=190684045 }}</ref> <ref name=Woolf>{{citation |author=Judith Woolf |year=2019 |title=Milkmaid Bears and Savage Mates |journal=Anthrozoös |volume=32 |number=3 |pages=305–318 |doi=10.1080/08927936.2019.1598650|s2cid=182759647 }}</ref>
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Category:Individual bears in England Category:Individual brown bears
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