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.

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v t e Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590 and 1596)
Characters	Archimago Belphoebe Caelia Fairy Queen Orgoglio
Locations	House of Pride
Commentary	"A Fig for Fortune" The Political and Ecclesiastical Allegory of the First Book of the Faerie Queene
Derivative works	The Mathematics of Magic The Palace of Pleasure The Quest Saint George and the Dragon Gloriana Una and the Lion
In art	Britomart Delivering Amoretta from the Enchantment of Busirane Britomart Redeems Faire Amoret Duchess of Devonshire as Cynthia Fidelia and Speranza The Flight of Florimell Mammon Phaedria and Cymochles Venus in Search of Cupid Surprises Diana

A Fig for Fortune

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