Pretty Creatures: Children and Fiction in the English Renaissance
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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
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