Elizabethan Club

Elizabethan Club
Founded1911; 113 years ago (1911)
Yale University
TypeSocial and literary
AffiliationIndependent
StatusActive
ScopeLocal
SymbolFalcon
Chapters1
Headquarters459 College Street
New Haven, Connecticut 06511
United States
Websiteelizabethanclub.yale.edu

The Elizabethan Club is a social club at Yale University named for Queen Elizabeth I and her era. Its profile and members tend toward a literary disposition, and conversation is one of the Club's chief purposes.

The Elizabethan Club's collection of 16th- and 17th-century books and artifacts include Shakespearean folios and quartos, first editions of Milton's Paradise Lost, Spenser's Faerie Queene, and Francis Bacon's Essayes, all locked in the club's vault. The collection is only available for inspection at certain times, or to researchers upon request at Yale's Beinecke Library.[1] Tea is served daily during the semester and members may invite guests on specified days. The Club accepts female and male undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff.