diff --git a/django/template/context.py b/django/template/context.py
index de7c39f17b..cf0c929065 100644
--- a/django/template/context.py
+++ b/django/template/context.py
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
+from copy import copy
 from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
 from django.utils.importlib import import_module
+from django.http import HttpRequest
 
 # Cache of actual callables.
 _standard_context_processors = None
@@ -17,6 +19,11 @@ class BaseContext(object):
         dict_ = dict_ or {}
         self.dicts = [dict_]
 
+    def __copy__(self):
+        duplicate = self._new()
+        duplicate.dicts = [dict_ for dict_ in self.dicts]
+        return duplicate
+
     def __repr__(self):
         return repr(self.dicts)
 
@@ -24,6 +31,9 @@ class BaseContext(object):
         for d in reversed(self.dicts):
             yield d
 
+    def _new(self):
+        return self.__class__()
+
     def push(self):
         d = {}
         self.dicts.append(d)
@@ -73,6 +83,16 @@ class Context(BaseContext):
         self.render_context = RenderContext()
         super(Context, self).__init__(dict_)
 
+    def __copy__(self):
+        duplicate = super(Context, self).__copy__()
+        duplicate.render_context = copy(self.render_context)
+        return duplicate
+
+    def _new(self):
+        return self.__class__(autoescape=self.autoescape,
+                              current_app=self.current_app,
+                              use_l10n=self.use_l10n)
+
     def update(self, other_dict):
         "Pushes other_dict to the stack of dictionaries in the Context"
         if not hasattr(other_dict, '__getitem__'):
@@ -148,3 +168,8 @@ class RequestContext(Context):
             processors = tuple(processors)
         for processor in get_standard_processors() + processors:
             self.update(processor(request))
+
+    def _new(self):
+        return self.__class__(request=HttpRequest(),
+                              current_app=self.current_app,
+                              use_l10n=self.use_l10n)
diff --git a/django/test/client.py b/django/test/client.py
index 24fe62764a..dd0d811b02 100644
--- a/django/test/client.py
+++ b/django/test/client.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import os
 import re
 import mimetypes
 import warnings
+from copy import copy
 try:
     from cStringIO import StringIO
 except ImportError:
@@ -91,9 +92,12 @@ class ClientHandler(BaseHandler):
 def store_rendered_templates(store, signal, sender, template, context, **kwargs):
     """
     Stores templates and contexts that are rendered.
+
+    The context is copied so that it is an accurate representation at the time
+    of rendering.
     """
     store.setdefault('templates', []).append(template)
-    store.setdefault('context', ContextList()).append(context)
+    store.setdefault('context', ContextList()).append(copy(context))
 
 def encode_multipart(boundary, data):
     """