# Sackerson

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{{Short description|Bear}}
[[File:Sackerson.jpg|thumb|right|"Sackerson loose" by [Robert William Buss](/source/Robert_William_Buss)]]
'''Sackerson''' was a famous [brown bear](/source/brown_bear) which was [baited](/source/bear-baiting) in London's [Beargarden](/source/Beargarden) in the late 16th century.{{r|Woolf}}

The bear appears in Shakespeare's ''[The Merry Wives of Windsor](/source/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](/source/Bear_Inn%2C_Nantwich) in [Nantwich](/source/Nantwich) and kept a stable of bears and so may have supplied this one.{{r|3bears|p=105}}

==See also==
* [List of individual bears](/source/List_of_individual_bears)

==References==
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<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>

</references>

Category:Individual bears in England
Category:Individual brown bears

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