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Pretty creatures : children and fiction in the English Renaissance

"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."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2007
Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2007
Criticism, interpretation, etc
viii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780801443992, 0801443997
83758792
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