 | Pretty Creatures: Children and Fiction in the English Renaissance Subjects: English literature -- Early modern 1500–1700 -- History and criticism; Children in literature; Theater and children -- England -- History -- 16th century; Theater and children -- England -- History -- 17th century; Children -- England -- History -- 16th; 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. Michael Witmore is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Culture of Accidents: Unexpected Knowledges in Early Modern England and the coeditor of Childhood and Children's Books in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800 . |
