Mercutio describes Queen Mab, the fairies' midwife. The description is fantastical, but as he says "I talk of dreams; Which are the children of an idle brain; Begot of nothing but vain fantasy", hence we do not view this as genre. Full text can be found at <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="http://www.shakespeare-navigators.com/romeo/T14.html">Shakespeare Navigator</a>, lines 53-91.
Extract from Romeo & Juliet, Act 1 Scene 4.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920 |
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The Book of Fairy Poetry | Longmans, Green and Co. | Anthology | 149 |