Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Modernization -- pretty creatures creatures creatures creatures creatures creatures creatures creatures creatures creatures creatures -- Introduction -- [1] Ut Pueritas Poesis The Child and Fiction in the English Renaissance -- [2] Animated Children in Elizabeth's Coronation Pageant of 1559 -- [3] Phatic Metadrama and the Touch of Irony in English Children's Theater -- [4] Mamillius, The Winter's Tale, and the Impetus of Fiction -- [5] The Lies Children Tell Counterfeiting Victims and Witnesses in Early Modern English Witchcraft Trials and Possessions -- Epilogue -- Index.