Pretty creatures children and fiction in the English Renaissance / [electronic resource] :
Michael Witmore.
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007.
- viii, 233 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700 Children in literature. Theater and children--History--England--16th century. Theater and children--History--England--17th century. Children--History--England--16th century. Children--History--England--17th century.