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Articles
Abstract
This piece focuses on the stresses and biases that are produced by religious conflict, beginning with the Catholic-Protestant divide that characterized Shakespeare’s lifetime, particularly focusing on the Elizabethan (and Jacobean) and government’s persecution of Catholics within England. This chapter uses Measure for Measure to examine Shakespeare’s argument for religious toleration within this Catholic-Puritan framework and the persistent threats of violence leveraged against the “wrong” religion. At the conclusion of the piece, I will turn to the contemporary religious right to discuss how we can view modern religious conflict in the US (and around the world) through this same framework.
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Bezio, Kristin M.S.
(2026)
"Leadership & Religious (In)Toleration: Religious Conflict, Leadership, and Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure,"
Interdisciplinary Journal of Leadership Studies: Vol. 4, Article 5.
Available at:
https://scholarship.richmond.edu/ijls/vol4/iss2/5