Shakespeare · Romeo and Juliet · Act 1, Scene 4
Queen Mab speech
Monologue
Male
2–4 min
Imagination
Desire
Death
Mercutio describes Queen Mab, a tiny fairy midwife who visits people in their sleep to make them dream of their desires, from love to war, and sometimes presses maids to teach them to bear.
MERCUTIO
O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Over men’s noses as they lie asleep: Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners’ legs; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers; Her…
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