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Re: Queen Mab
by Cleveland Kent Evans (clevelandkentevans)
10/3/2005, 10:53 AM
in reply to a message by Castle
According to Francis Griffin Stokes's Who's Who in Shakespeare, originally published in 1924, the Romeo and Juliet reference is "the first mention in literature" of Queen Mab.
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- Castle (guest)   +1
10/8/2005, 9:50 AM
Thank you! So am I right about the origin of it? That it's just an alternate spelling of Maeve?
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- Cleveland Kent Evans (clevelandkentevans)
10/8/2005, 5:13 PM
As I understand it, that is one theory of how Shakespeare derived the name, but one really can't be sure where he got it from.
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