... 's Queen Mab speech is one of the most famous in the play. Queen Mab, who brings dreams to sleeping people, seems to be loosely based on figures in the pagan Celtic mythology that predated Christianity's arrival in England. Yet the name holds a deeper meaning. The words "quean- and "mab- were references to whores in Elizabethan England. In Queen Mab, then, Mercutio creates ... ...

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