Editing Elizabeth (film) (section)

===Historical accuracy===
''Elizabeth'' received some criticism for factual liberties it takes and for its distortion of the historical timeline to present events that occurred in the middle to later part of Elizabeth's reign as occurring at the beginning.<ref name="Levin"/><ref name="Carlson">{{cite journal| title=Teaching and Technology: Teaching Elizabeth Tudor with Movies: Film, Historical Thinking, and the Classroom| author=Eric Josef Carlson| journal=The Sixteenth Century Journal| year=2007| volume=38| issue=2| pages=419–428| doi=10.2307/20478367|jstor = 20478367}}</ref> In his entry for Elizabeth I in the ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]'', [[Patrick Collinson]] described the film "as if the known facts of the reign, plus many hitherto unknown, were shaken up like pieces of a jigsaw and scattered on the table at random."<ref name="Carlson"/><ref>{{cite news| title=Elizabeth I (1553–1603)| author=Patrick Collinson| publisher=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography| page=76}}</ref> Carole Levin, reviewing the film in 1999 for ''[[American Historical Association|Perspectives on History]]'', criticised the movie for portraying Elizabeth as "a very weak and flighty character who often showed terrible judgment", in contrast to historical descriptions of her as a strong, decisive, and intelligent ruler. In particular, Levin described the movie's portrayal of Elizabeth as dependent on Walsingham, in addition to the completely inaccurate portrayal of her relationship with Robert Dudley; such instances in the film make her character appear weak and overpowered by the men around her.<ref name="Levin">{{cite news| url=https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/april-1999/elizabeth-romantic-film-heroine-or-sixteenth-century-queen| title=Elizabeth: Romantic Film Heroine or Sixteenth-Century Queen?| author=Carole Levin| publisher=Perspectives on History| date=1 April 1999| access-date=13 January 2020| archive-date=13 January 2020| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200113075319/https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/april-1999/elizabeth-romantic-film-heroine-or-sixteenth-century-queen| url-status=live}}</ref>