Pretty creatures

Witmore, Michael.

Pretty creatures children and fiction in the English Renaissance / [electronic resource] : Michael Witmore. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007. - viii, 233 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ut pueritas poesis : the child and fiction in the English Renaissance -- Animated children in Elizabeth's coronation pageant of 1559 -- Phatic metadrama and the touch of irony in English children's theater -- Mamillius, The winter's tale, and the impetus of fiction -- The lies children tell : counterfeiting victims and witnesses in early modern English witchcraft trials and possessions.


Electronic reproduction.
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ebrary,
2013.
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English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700
Children in literature.
Theater and children--History--England--16th century.
Theater and children--History--England--17th century.
Children--History--England--16th century.
Children--History--England--17th century.


Electronic books.

PR428.C44 / W58 2007eb

820.9/28209031