Queen Mab
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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His challenging Queen Mab speech, which can glaze the eyes, here is delivered with delectable playfulness, as Mercutio sports almost flirtatiously with Romeo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Jonathan Holby’s fight direction introduces a gun into the arsenal of knives that does away with Jack Riddiford’s charismatic Mercutio, here an insolent provocateur who has barely spoken the Queen Mab speech before he disappears.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2023
You can go from epic scenes of dancing to the Queen Mab speech, and it all seems to weave in and out of this party scene.
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2016
Shelley's Queen Mab came at 21, Keats' Endymion at 23, 40 of Raphael's madonnas before 28, Rembrandt's Lesson in Anatomy at 26.
From Time Magazine Archive
His grandmother was Queen Mab, of the House of the Greenbriar.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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