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Author Witmore, Michael.

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

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  820.9282 W825P    Check Shelf
Description viii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary "In Pretty Creatures, Michael Witmore examines the ways in which children, with their proverbial capacity for spontaneous imitation and their imaginative absorption, came to exemplify the virtues and powers of fiction during the English Renaissance."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject 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.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1550-1750
Other Form: Online version: Witmore, Michael. Pretty creatures. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007 (OCoLC)608090058
ISBN 9780801443992 cloth alkaline paper
0801443997 cloth alkaline paper
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