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Queen Mab

American  
[mab] / mæb /

noun

  1. Irish and English Folklore. a mischievous, tantalizing fairy who governs and produces people's dreams.


Queen Mab British  
/ mæb /

noun

  1. (in British folklore) a bewitching fairy who rules over men's dreams

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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 delivery of the Queen Mab speech is a masterpiece of abstracted art.

From Time Magazine Archive

The first High Queen, Mab, had her smith forge a crown.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black