Diane Purkiss

Standard Name: Purkiss, Diane

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Anthologization	Lady Jane Lumley	The next year, a modern scholarly edition of LJL 's work appeared, as The Tragedie of Iphigeneia, in Three Tragedies by Renaissance Women, edited by Diane Purkiss together with plays by the Countess of Pembroke
Literary responses	Lady Jane Lumley	Scholar Marion Wynne-Davies has pointed out that what have been called errors in translation (omissions, transpositions) are deliberate changes made for literary or intellectual effect. Editor Purkiss provides a detailed analysis in her introduction. Wynne-Davies, Marion. “Families at War: Womenapos;s Dramatic Writing and Political Conflict”. Disrupting the Discourses: Women Writers 1500-1700 Conference, South Bank University, London, 31 July 1998. Pembroke, Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of, and Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland. “Introduction”. Three Tragedies by Renaissance Women, edited by Diane Purkiss, translated by. Lady Jane Lumley, Penguin, 1998, p. i - xlvi.
Literary responses	Hannah Wolley	Historian Diane Purkiss observes that this and HW 's later books open up privileged knowledge to unprivileged readers. Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007. 348
Literary responses	Mary Renault	The book came out five years after the Sexual Offences Act in Britain decriminalised many homosexual practices there, and three years after the Stonewall Inn Riots in New York marked the start of Gay Liberation...
Occupation	Hannah Wolley	According to her own statement she spent seven years (up to the age of twenty-four) as a servant to an employer in the nobility. Scholar John Considine in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography identifies...

Timeline

27 March 1625

James I (James VI of Scotland) died, and his son Charles I assumed the throne.

Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

425

Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.

Morrill, John. “The Stuarts (1603-1688)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 286-51.

304

Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.

10ff

24 January 1642

The earliest dated of the weekly newsbooks listed in the English Short Title Catalogue is the issue for the twentyfourth of January to the last, 1641 [sic], of A Perfect Diurnall of the Passages in...

Texts

Falkland, Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess, and Aemilia Lanyer. “Introduction”. Renaissance Women: the Plays of Elizabeth Cary, the Poems of Aemilia Lanyer, edited by Diane Purkiss, William Pickering, 1994, p. xvii - xlvii.

Pembroke, Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of, and Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland. “Introduction”. Three Tragedies by Renaissance Women, edited by Diane Purkiss, translated by. Lady Jane Lumley, Penguin, 1998, p. i - xlvi.

Falkland, Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess, and Aemilia Lanyer. Renaissance Women: The Plays of Elizabeth Cary: The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer. Editor Purkiss, Diane, Pickering and Chatto, 1994.

Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.

Falkland, Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess et al. “The Tragedie of Iphigeneia”. Three Tragedies by Renaissance Women, edited by Diane Purkiss, translated by. Lady Jane Lumley, Penguin, 1998.

Falkland, Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess. “The Tragedy of Mariam; The History of the Life, Reign, and Death of Edward II”. Renaissance Women: The Plays of Elizabeth Cary: The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer, edited by Diane Purkiss, Pickering and Chatto, 1994.

Purkiss, Diane. The Witch in History: early modern and twentieth-century representations. Routledge, 1996.