‘Mab’

‘Queen Mab’
by Arthur Rackam (1867 – 1939 English)

Queen Mab is a fairy referred to in Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet. She is known for being the ‘fairies midwife’ bringing birth to dreams, performing pranks upon sleepers, and ‘delivering the fancies of sleeping men‘. She is known to be a prankster, but otherwise of a harmless nature, other than being a ‘dream-bringer’.