A Fig for Fortune
A Fig for Fortune is a 1596 long allegorical poem by the English Catholic writer Anthony Copley written as a parodying response to Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene.[1] It intended to reject both Protestant portrayals of English Catholics as inherently disloyal to Queen Elizabeth, as well as hard-line Jesuit calls for Catholics to become martyrs by resisting the Protestant Queen.
References
- ↑ Shell p.134
Bibliography
- Shell, Alison. Catholicism, Controversy and the English Literary Imagination, 1558–1660. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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