Pretty Creatures: Children and Fiction in the English Renaissance

by Michael Witmore

Children had surprisingly central roles in many of the public performances of the English Renaissance, whether in entertainments--civic pageants, children's theaters, Shakespearean drama--or in more grim religious and legal settings, as when children were possessed by demons or testified as witnesses in witchcraft trials. Taken together, such spectacles made repeated connections between child performers as children and the mimetic powers of fiction...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801443997
• ISBN13: 9780801443992
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher