SOURCE: "Love's Martyr's: Shakespeare's 'Phoenix and Turtle' and the Sacrificial Sonnets," in Religion and Culture in Renaissance England, edited by Claire McEachern and Debora Shuger, Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 188-208.
In the following essay, McCoy studies the combination sacred and earthly elements in The Phoenix and Turtle and suggests the term "relic" to describe the blending of mortality and continued spiritual power.
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