SOURCE: "Miraculous Succession: The Phoenix and the Turtle (1601)," in The Queen's Two Bodies: Drama and the Elizabethan Succession, Royal Historical Society, 1977, pp. 116-30.
In the following essay, Axton focuses on The Phoenix and Turtle as "a politically philosophical poem " related to the succession of Elizabeth I.
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