...ves of Windsor (1602) and Othello (1605), they were not created by William Shakespeare, and indeed were mentioned as early as the 5th century BC in "the Histories
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...'s Dream''. In Shakespeare's play, she is the queen of the fairies. Due to Shakespeare's influence, later fiction has often used the name "Titania" for fairy quee
In traditional folklore, the fairy queen has no name. Shakespeare took the name 'Titania' from Ovid's '’Metamorphoses'', where it is an app
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Lake Elsinore was named after the Danish city, Elsinore, in Shakespeare's Hamlet. Besides a lake monster, Lake Elsinore is rumored to also have gho
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* Familiars were mentioned in Shakespeare's Macbeth, as the witches called their familiars. Many other works have uti
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Famous fictional sprites include Shakespeare's Ariel and Puck.
* Famous fictional sprites include Shakespeare's Ariel and Puck.
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The earliest written account of Herne comes from from Shakespeare's ''Merry Wives of Windsor'' in 1597:
::— William Shakespeare, ''The Merry Wives of Windsor''
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...and they shall have good luck" said one of William Shakespeare's fairies. Shakespeare's characterization of "shrewd and knavish" Puck in ''A Midsummer Night's Dr
* [http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLT/ideas/folklore.html A folklore page, with a 1639 Puritan image
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...ylphide” as well as a confusion with other "airy spirits" (e.g. in William Shakespeare's ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''), sylphs have become often identified with
...sylph in "The Rape of the Lock" has the same name as Prospero's servant in Shakespeare's ''The Tempest'': Ariel.
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Shakespeare refers to him in ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', ii. 1.
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*In Shakespeare's ''The Tempest'' (c. 1623), Act I, Scene II, St. Elmo's fire acquires a mo
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...'''Auberon''', King of the fairy, is most famous as a character in William Shakespeare's play, ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', written in the mid-1590s. Oberon giv
Shakespeare saw or heard of the French heroic song, through the ''ca'' 1540 translation
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* William Shakespeare (circa 1602), The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I, Sc. III:
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Queen '''Mab''' is a fairy referred to in Shakespeare's play ''Romeo and Juliet''.
Shakespeare depicted her in almost mockingly in:
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'''Caliban''' is a fictional character in [[Shakespeare]]'s ''The Tempest'', a deformed monster who is the slave of '''Prospero'''.
...onialism by various postcolonial intellectuals. However, the fact that, in Shakespeare’s original, neither Caliban nor Sycorax are native to the island, but in
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...ll take. Such an example of this is the contrast of Hamlet the legend, and Shakespeare's ''Hamlet''. When a legend that is rooted in a kernel of truth is so stron
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...xon, rather than Celtic, beliefs and is first mentioned in 1597 in William Shakespeare's play ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'', Act 4, Scene 4. It is, however, poss
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...e Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.' --- Shakespeare, Othello
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...istophiles. The first adds Hebrew to the Latin and Greek mix. In addition, Shakespeare mentions Mephistophilus, with its Latinate ending, in the "Merry Wives of W
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...o English. It influenced the writings of Shakespeare, Baudelaire, and Poe. Shakespeare based his character Caliban in "The Tempest" on Pigafetta`s account of the
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...donkey's head. Orson Scott Card's ''Magic Street'' adds new fairy lore to Shakespeare's story and offers an alternative history of the play.
Shakespeare carefully put in the mouth of his fairies:
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