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 in
general.
In Pretty Creatures, Michael 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 this era. As much concerned with
Renaissance poetics as with children's roles in public spectacles
of the period, Pretty Creatures attempts to bring the antics of
children and the rich commentary these antics provoked into the
mainstream of Renaissance studies, performance studies, and studies
of reformation culture in England. As such, it represents an
alternative history of the concept of mimesis in the period, one
that is built from the ground up through reflections on the actual
performances of what was arguably nature's greatest mimic: the
child."
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