Queen Mab?

[Raskahn]

After a night of surfing the net, this came up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Mab

Compare that to some of the artwork found via Google's image search and, you'll find that the similarities are amazing.

[techmaster-glitch]

This has been pointed out before.

[xHaZxMaTx]

It's (interesting) news to me.

[Cogidubnus]

And young and old come forth to play   
On a sunshine holyday,   
Till the livelong daylight fail:   
Then to the spicy nut-brown ale,          
With stories told of many a feat,   
How fairy Mab the junkets eat: ~



I'm more inclined to Il Penseroso, but I guess there's something to be said for 'the happy man'...

[MaskedRetriever]

Lines said by Mercutio, who is so totally the Abel of Romeo and Juliet.

Which is by vast bounds my least favorite piece of Shakespeare but what're ya gonna do.  Oh well by some accounts Mab shows up with a speaking part as Titania in Midsummer Night's Dream 


...

O wait did she actually speak in that I forget 

[Brunhidden]

I wonder if we will ever meet someone named Oberon, and what relation he and she would have

[Cogidubnus]

Lines said by Mercutio, who is so totally the Abel of Romeo and Juliet.

If you're referring to those lines above, that's Milton, not Shakespeare. Although Mercutio might have quoted it - it's been some time since I've read through A Midsummer Night's Dream...

[Rafe]

Shall I compare thee to a summer's Mab?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate
Rough winds do shake the darling MOWs of May,
And Basement Rats hath all too short a date:
Sometimes too hot the eye of Pip shines
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or Kria's changing course untrimmed;
But thy eternal beauty shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Dan brag thou wanderest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men shall breathe or eyes can see,
So, long lives this and this gives life to thee,
And those censorship Pandas.

[GabrielsThoughts]

you know I could compare Mab to a Sabrina the teenage witch Character... with the same purple outfit and blue hair, but that doesn't make them the same character...even if they also share a similar personality an look remarkably similar. 

[Rafe]

Nah, Mab is actually based on Eek the Cat.

[Zedd]

Nah, Mab is actually based on Eek the Cat.

I loved that show...Specialy Sharky

Next thing people will tell me theres a TF in DMFA

[GabrielsThoughts]

WHAT! Toric isn't a transformer? I thought he was a toaster or something.

[Sofox]

"Thou talk'st of nothing."

"True, I talk of dreams,
Which are the children of an idle brain"

[Dannysaysnoo]

"Thou talk'st of nothing."

"True, I talk of dreams,
Which are the children of an idle brain"

Wow, where did you get that?

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Shakespeare.

Sheesh. Children these days know nothing.

[Dannysaysnoo]

Shakespeare.

Sheesh. Children these days know nothing.

All i've done yet is Romeo and juliet.

[Sofox]

That's where it's from. Right after Mercutio's Queen Mab speech, Romeo tries to calm him, and hence is the reply he gives. I've always liked it.

[Dannysaysnoo]

"a plague on both your houses!"

[AndersW]

Next thing people will tell me theres a TF in DMFA

No transformers, but they do have giant mechs.  link

[Dr Neo Lao]

Sheesh. Children these days know nothing.

Tell me about it.

We were having a discussion at work and the Simpsons episode (Halloween special one, I think) came up where Homer is in the library and is plagued by the Bart Crow.

One of the younger workers thought it was an original Simpsons story, to which I replied that it was originally written in the 1800's. To which he replied "Well, I get all my Shakespeare from the Simpsons."

Gyargh!! It's Edgar Allen Poe you fool! And Shakespeare was around in the late 1500's, not the 1800's....

[Dannysaysnoo]

Sheesh. Children these days know nothing.

Tell me about it.

We were having a discussion at work and the Simpsons episode (Halloween special one, I think) came up where Homer is in the library and is plagued by the Bart Crow.

One of the younger workers thought it was an original Simpsons story, to which I replied that it was originally written in the 1800's. To which he replied "Well, I get all my Shakespeare from the Simpsons."

Gyargh!! It's Edgar Allen Poe you fool! And Shakespeare was around in the late 1500's, not the 1800's....

I'm not that dumb, Shakespeare didn't do anything like that.

[Sofox]

Gyargh!! It's Edgar Allen Poe you fool! And Shakespeare was around in the late 1500's, not the 1800's....

Didn't Lisa explicitly state in that episode that she was reading Edgar Allen Poe?

And gaining all your Shakespeare knowledge from the Simpsons? That's silly, Blackadder is the one to go for.

[Omega]

Gyargh!! It's Edgar Allen Poe you fool! And Shakespeare was around in the late 1500's, not the 1800's....

Even I knew that. And Poe nor Shakespeare are not part of my native culture.
Still, you can't force people to read, or expect them to now every text in the history. What was a common fact yesterday, is trivia of tomorrow.