Mercutio's Queen Mab Speech

From Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Mercutio's whimsical, increasingly dark monologue about the fairy who brings dreams to sleepers, revealing his cynicism toward love and fantasy.
Act 1, Scene 4

"O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. / She is the fairies' midwife" launches one of Shakespeare's most celebrated fantastical speeches.

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