Sion and Elizium: National Identity, Religion, and Allegiance in Anthony Copley’s A Fig for Fortune

By Lucy Underwood

This article uses Anthony Copley’s poem A Fig for Fortune (1596) to examine Elizabethan constructions of national identity. Acknowledging that religious and national identities were symbiotic in the Reformation era, it argues that the…

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