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This article offers an assessment of Shekhar Kapur’s depiction of the parliamentary making of the Elizabethan settlement in his 1998 film, Elizabeth. The settlement has always been a controversial subject, as indeed have Kapur’s cinematic stagings of Elizabethan history. After surveying historians’ accounts of the settlement, the author subjects the film’s settlement sequence to a careful analysis, reading it as cinema as well as history, and argues that, despite a significant number of historical inaccuracies, the film captures much of value as a filmic representation of the past.
