Queen Mab is a fairy referred to in Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. She also appears in other 17th century literature, and in various guises in later poetry, drama and cinema. In the play her activity is described in a famous comic spe...
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Queen Mab was a FAIRY. Seriously, she was a Fairy Queen. She also appears in other 17th century literature, and in various guises in later poetry, drama and cinema. In Romeo and Juliet her activity is described in a famous comic speech by M...
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This speech shows Mercutio's cynical and maveric nature. He does not value love or honour or dreams and through Queen Mab (quean and mab being Elizabethean words for prostitute) he mocks the value others place on dreams. mercutio's descript...
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Mercutio acts in contrast to the lovestruck Romeo and the peaceful Benvolio-he is a witty and quick-tempered skeptic. Mercutio teases Romeo for his love melancholy by sarcastically using conventional images of Petrarchan infatuation to unde...
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She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes in shape no bigger than an agate stone on the forefinger of an alderman, Drawm with a team of little atomi, Over men's noses as they lie asleep. Her wagon spokes made of long spinners' legs, the co...
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Mercutio's "Queen Mab" speech: Mercutio's famous "Queen Mab" speech is movtivated by Romeo's stubborn refusal to join in the fun that Benvolio and Mercutio have planned. In Franco Zeferelli's often-shown film version, Me...
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mercutio mentions queen mab, in Act I, scene 4, which is also the first scene you meet him. This scene is Mercutio, Benvolio and Romeo on their way to the Montague ball, and Mercutio says his speech in an attempt to try and tease Romeo out ...
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