** Queen Mab ( poem ) by Percy Bysshe Shelley ( 1813 )

So too a tangle in the hair was called an elf-lock, as being caused by the mischief of the elves ( or especially by Queen Mab ), and sudden paralysis was sometimes attributed to elf-stroke.

In the 1998 miniseries Merlin, the protagonist Merlin ( played by actor Sam Neill ) battled the pagan goddess Queen Mab.

* Queen Mab, a fairy in the play Romeo and Juliet

It is also associated with the fairy queen Queen Mab of Irish and English legend.

In two other works of Shelley, Ahasuerus appears, as a phantom in his first major poem Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem ( 1813 ) and later as a hermit healer in his last major work, the verse drama Hellas ( poem ).

Michael McClure compared Ginsberg's Howl to Shelley's breakthrough poem Queen Mab.

The year 1813 in literature involved some significant new books, including Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Robert Southey with Life of Nelson, Arthur Schopenhauer's Sufficient Reason, and Shelley's Queen Mab.

Some passages in Shelley's Queen Mab resulted in a charge of blasphemy being made against Moxon in 1841.

* Lady Mab: Inspired by Queen Mab.

Percy also wrote in defence of free love ( and vegetarianism ) in the prose notes of Queen Mab ( 1813 ), in his essay On Love ( c1815 ) and in the poem Epipsychidion ( 1821 ):

The graphic novel also introduced the character of Queen Mab, a name which The Sandman had established that Titania sometimes used as an alias.

* Queen Mab ( 1863 )

He also shows how Harry was unduly influenced to take up the mantle of the Winter Knight and redresses this imbalance by telling him that Mab, the Winter Queen cannot change who he is.

In 1841 Edward Moxon was found guilty of the publication of a blasphemous libel ( Percy Bysshe Shelley's Queen Mab ), the prosecution having been instituted by Henry Hetherington, who had previously been condemned to four months imprisonment for a similar offence, and wished to test the law under which he was punished.

* Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem, by Percy Bysshe Shelley ( 1813 )

Queen Mab is a fairy referred to in Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.

" O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you.

In Poole's work Parnassus, Mab is described as the Queen of the Fairies and consort to Oberon, Emperor of the Fairies.

Queen Mab is alluded to in Robert Herrick's " The Argument of his Book.

Queen Mab was a successful pantomime by Henry Woodward, staged at Drury Lane, London in 1750.

Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem ( 1813 ) is the title of the first large poetic work written by the famous English Romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley ( 1792 – 1822 ).

" Queen Mab " is also the subtitle given to the 31st chapter of Herman Melville's novel, Moby Dick, first published in 1851.

In Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, the sexually deceptive Willoughby gives his prey, Marianne, a horse named Queen Mab, a symbol for Marianne's over-eager expectations of marriage in the travelling, womanizing Willoughby.

She answered her accusers that she received tuition from Thomas Reid, a former barony officer who had died at the Battle of Pinkie some 30 years before and also from the Queen of the Elfhame which lay nearby.

In addition to James II himself ( who died a few months after the act received the royal assent ) and his Catholic children Prince James and Princess Louisa, the act also excluded the descendents of James ' sister Henrietta, the youngest daughter of Charles I. Henrietta's daughter Anne was then the Queen of Sardinia and a Catholic ; the Jacobite heirs of today are descended from her line.

There is also a memorial to Disraeli in the chancel in the church, erected in his honour by Queen Victoria.

For Queen Anne also, the Ramillies campaign had one overriding significance – " Now we have God be thanked so hopeful a prospect of peace.

VeggieTales also made an animated version entitled Esther … The Girl Who Became Queen.

She has also been the subject of a 1978 British TV series, Warrior Queen, starring Siân Phillips as Boudica.

She has also appeared in several comic book series, including the Sláine, which featured two runs, titled " Demon Killer " and " Queen of Witches " giving a free interpretation of Boudica's story.

Craigowan Lodge is used regularly by the Queen's friends and family, and has also been used by the Queen while Balmoral Castle is being prepared.

The 1997 film Mrs. Brown was also based on events at Balmoral, although in both films substitute locations were used: Blairquhan Castle in The Queen ; and Duns Castle in Mrs Brown.

It also created the opportunity to redevelop the vacant space in Robert Smirke's 19th-century central quadrangle into the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court – the largest covered square in Europe – which opened in 2000.

The Queen also participated in celebrations of Canada's 100th anniversary on July 1, 1967.

In Greek mythology, Cassandra ( Greek, also, also known as Alexandra ) was the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy.

There is also a track on the accompanying EP Vempire or Dark Faerytales in Phallustein titled " Queen Of Winter Throned " which contains the lyrics: " Iniquitous / I share Carmilla's mask / A gaunt mephitic voyeur / On the black side of the glass ".

Given Chrétien's known tendency to create new stories and characters, being the first to mention the hero Lancelot and his love affair with Queen Guinevere for example, the name might also be entirely invented.

Summer would become the first well-known and most popular disco artist — eventually having the title " The Queen of Disco " bestowed upon her by various critics — and would also play a part in pioneering the electronic sound that later became a prominent element of disco.

The " puzzle " approach was carried even further into ingenious and seemingly impossible plots by John Dickson Carr — also writing as Carter Dickson — who is regarded as the master of the " locked room mystery ", and Cecil Street, who also wrote as John Rhode, whose detective, Dr. Priestley, specialised in elaborate technical devices, while in the US the whodunnit was adopted and extended by Rex Stout and Ellery Queen, among others.

A building known as the Tomb of Esther and Mordechai is located in Hamadan, Iran, although the village of Kfar Bar ' am in northern Israel also claims to be the burial place of Queen Esther.

She also appeared with a starring role in the series Extreme for NBC and the syndicated series Renegade and Queen of Swords.

The government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, conferred the additional title upon her by an Act of Parliament, reputedly to assuage the monarch's irritation at being, as a mere Queen, notionally inferior to her own daughter ( Princess Victoria was the wife of the reigning German Emperor ); the Indian Imperial designation was also formally justified as the expression of Britain succeeding as paramount ruler of the subcontinent the former Mughal ' Padishah of Hind ', using indirect rule through hundreds of princely states formally under protection, not colonies, but accepting the British Sovereign as their suzerain.

" Itegue " translates as Empress, and was also used by the only female reigning Empress, Zauditu, along with the official title Negiste Negest ( Queen of Kings ).

Neale and Rowse also idealised the Queen personally: she always did everything right ; her more unpleasant traits were ignored or explained as signs of stress.

The indenture also provided for payment of debts amounting to £ 9, 096, £ 3, 457 of which was still owed to the Queen as expenses for his wardship.

Lord and Lady Mountbatten had two daughters: Patricia Mountbatten, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma ( born on 14 February 1924 ), sometime lady-in-waiting to the Queen, and Lady Pamela Carmen Louise ( Hicks ) ( born on 19 April 1929 ), who accompanied them to India in 1947-48 and was also sometime lady-in-waiting to the Queen.