Who Is Queen Mab? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Queen Mab is a In the Public Domain comic book character, the alter ego of Mab, with over 24 comic issue appearances. Queen Mab is a fairy referred to in Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet

Who is Queen Mab?

In English folklore, Queen Mab is a fairy. It was memorably described in a speech in Romeo and Juliet, in which she is a miniature creature who drives his chariot across the faces of sleeping people and compels them to dream and fulfill their desires. Mercutio's speech "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 Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep; Her wagon-spokes made of long spinners’ legs, The cover of the wings of grasshoppers, The traces of the smallest spider's web, The collars of the moonshine's wat'ry beams, Her whip of cricket's bone; the lash of film; Her waggoner a small grey-coated gnat, Not half so big as a round little worm Pricked from the lazy finger of a maid: Her chariot is an empty hazelnut Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub, Time out o’ mind the fairies’ coachmakers. And in this state she gallops night by night Through lovers’ brains, and then they dream of love; O’er courtiers’ knees, that dream on court'sies straight, O’er lawyers’ fingers, who straight dream on fees, O’er ladies' lips, who straight.

Key facts

Queen Mab is of god/eternal origin. The character is published by In the Public Domain. With 24 recorded issue appearances, Queen Mab ranks among the most featured characters in comics.