Pretty creatures : children and fiction in the English Renaissance / Michael Witmore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Witmore, Michael.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Children in literature.

Theater and children--England--History--16th century.

Theater and children.

Theater and children--England--History--17th century.

Children--England--History--16th century.

Children.

Children--England--History--17th century.

History.

England.

Physical Description:

viii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780801443992

0801443997

OCLC:

83758792