Situates the poem in its political and religious context while offering a full textual analysis.

Susannah Brietz Monta is Glynn Family Honors Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame

Introduction
Anthony Copley's biography
Thomas Copley
The Copley family
Anthony Copley's life
Early modern English Catholicism
A Fig for Fortune in literary context
Notes on the 1596 printing
Editing practices
'To the Right Honourable Anthonie Browne, L. Vicompt Mont-ague, everlasting glorie to his vertues'
'The Argument to the Reader'
A Fig for Fortune
Index