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Queen Mab, illustration by Arthur Rackham (1906) Queen Mab is a fairy referred to in William Shakespeare 's play Romeo and Juliet, where "she is the fairies' midwife". Later, she appears in other poetry and literature, and in various guises in drama and cinema. In the play, her activity is described in a famous speech by Mercutio published ...
The Fairy-Queen. The Fairy-Queen (1692; Purcell catalogue number Z.629) is a semi-opera by Henry Purcell; a "Restoration spectacular". [1] The libretto is an anonymous adaptation of William Shakespeare 's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream. [2] First performed in 1692, The Fairy-Queen was composed three years before Purcell's death at the age of 35.
Feb 19, 2023 · Titania is the queen of the fairies in Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She is a beautiful and powerful fairy who is married to Oberon, the king of the fairies. Titania is often portrayed as a kind and nurturing figure, but she can also be vain and capricious. The Fairy Queen is a powerful entity who often meddles in the ...
The Faerie Queene is an English epic poem by Edmund Spenser.Books I–III were first published in 1590, then republished in 1596 together with books IV–VI. The Faerie Queene is notable for its form: at over 36,000 lines and over 4,000 stanzas, it is one of the longest poems in the English language; it is also the work in which Spenser invented the verse form known as the Spenserian stanza.
Dec 9, 2003 · The Fairy Queen Act I Come, come, come, let us leave the Town And in some lonely place, Where Crouds and Noise were never known, Resolve to spend our days. In pleasant Shades upon the Grass At Night our selves we'll lay; Our Days in harmless Sport shall pass, Thus Time shall slide away. Drunken Poet: Fill up the Bowl, then, &c. 1st Fairy, Chorus :
Spouse. Oberon. Titania ( / tɪˈtɑːniə /) [1] is a character in William Shakespeare 's 1595–1596 play A Midsummer Night's Dream . In the play, she is the Queen of the fairies and wife of the Fairy King, Oberon. The pair are depicted as powerful natural spirits who together guarantee the fertility or health of the human and natural worlds.
In Scottish folklore, faeries are divided into the Seelie Court and the Unseelie Court.D. L. Ashliman notes that this may be the most famous division of fairies. The Seelie Court is described to comprise fairies that seek help from humans, warn those who have accidentally offended them, and return human kindness with favors of their own.
