Staging the settlement: Shekhar Kapur and the parliament of 1559

• Autores: David Dean
• Localización: Parliamentary history, ISSN-e 1750-0206, Vol. 34, Nº. 1 (February), 2015 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Managing Tudor and Stuart Parliaments: Essays in Memory of Michael Graves / Chris R. Kyle (ed. lit.)), págs. 30-44
• Idioma: inglés
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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.