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New page: '''Queen Mab''' (perhaps derived from the Welsh mab, "a baby") was Queen of the fairies, according to 15th-century English and Welsh legends. That honor later went to Titania. Mab does no...
'''Queen Mab''' (perhaps derived from the Welsh mab, "a baby") was Queen of the fairies, according to 15th-century English and Welsh legends. That honor later went to Titania. Mab does not appear in Shakespeare's ''Romeo and Juliet,'' but she is described as the "fairies' midwife"--that is, she is used by the fairies as midwife to deliver man's brain of dreams. Rich descriptions of Mab are given by Shakespeare (''Romeo and Juliet'', i. 4), by Ben Jonson, by Herrick, and by Drayton in ''Nymphidia''.
[[Category:Fairy tales]]
[[Category:Fairy tales]]