Pretty creatures
Subtitle: children and fiction in the English Renaissance
By: Michael Witmore.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780801443992
Subjects: English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Children in literature; Theater and children -- England -- History -- 16th century; Theater and children -- England -- History -- 17th century; Children -- England -- History -- 16th century; Children -- England -- History -- 17th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ut pueritas poesis : the child and fiction in the English Renaissance; title: Animated children in Elizabeth's coronation pageant of 1559; title: Phatic metadrama and the touch of irony in English children's theater; title: Mamillius, The winter's tale, and the impetus of fiction; title: The lies children tell : counterfeiting victims and witnesses in early modern English witchcraft trials and possessions.