Pretty Creatures: Children and Fiction in the English Renaissance
Book Description
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 p... More
Book Information
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Binding | Hardcover (2 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 248 |
ISBN-10 | 0801443997 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0801443992 |
Publication Date | 07/19/2007 |
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