Who is Queen Mab?
Oberon’s mother, and the former ruler of Avalon. The Third Race was known as the Children of Mab during her reign. Oberon overthrew her, and she was imprisoned. She would later return after escaping to get revenge. Oberon overthrew her because, not only was she insane, she was also against his marriage to Titania. Mab’s form was human-like, but possibly having four arms. She might also have been three inches in height. She was mentioned in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, in this monologue spoken by the character Mercutio (Act I, Scene IV, line 59-101): O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men’s noses as they lie asleep; Her wagon-spokes made of long spiders’ legs, The cover of the wings of grasshoppers, The traces of the smallest spider’s web, The collars of the moonshine’s watery beams, Her whip of cricket’s bone, the
