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Pretty creatures children and fiction in the English Renaissance

Title: Pretty creatures [electronic resource] : children and fiction in the English Renaissance / Michael Witmore.
Author: Witmore, Michael.
Publication: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007.

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Description

1 online resource (viii, 233 p.) : ill.

Uniform Title

Pretty creatures (Online)

Alternative Title

Pretty creatures (Online)

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

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.

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