Queen Mab is a fairy referred to in William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, where "she is the fairies' midwife".
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16 Facts About Queen Mab
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Queen Mab is described as a midwife to help sleepers "give birth" to their dreams.
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Queen Mab appears in Jane Austen's novel Sense and Sensibility.
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Barrie's The Little White Bird, Queen Mab lives in Kensington Gardens and grants Peter Pan – who has learned he is a boy, and thus can no longer fly – his wish to fly again.
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American philosopher George Santayana wrote a short piece titled "Queen Mab" which appeared in his 1922 book Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies.
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Queen Mab is invoked in novels by Elizabeth Goudge, where she describes "Little Things" such as tiny tea sets, and miniature gnomes, and a tiny sculpture of Queen Mab in her coach, in A City of Bells and The Scent of Water.
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In Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files series, Queen Mab of The Winter Court is an important recurring character with mysterious motives.
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Queen Mab is the queen of the Unseelie Court in Julie Kagawa's The Iron Fey series.
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Queen Mab is a recurring supporting character in the Hellboy comic book series.
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Queen Mab is portrayed as the queen over the Irish fairies known as the Tuatha De Danann and is married to Dagda.
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Queen Mab appears as Mrs Mabb in Susanna Clarke's story of the same name in The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories stealing the affections of the Reynard-like Captain Fox from the heroine Venetia Moore, who must then rescue him from captivity.
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Queen Mab briefly appears in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman comic book series.
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Queen Mab instructs her courtier, the faerie Cluracan, to interfere in some mortal political affairs that “would not be a good thing for Faerie.
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In King's Quest VII, Queen Mab is one of several gods, demigods, and other powerful beings, who are kidnapped by the main villainess who threatens the world with destruction, and the viewpoint characters' mission is to rescue them and restore ecological balance.
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Queen Mab is a recurring character players can catch and use in battle in the JRPG series Shin Megami Tensei and related titles developed by Atlus.
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