Outputs (22)

Comic Character and Counter-Violation: Critiquing Benign Violation Theory (2021)
Book Chapter
Derrin, D. (2021). Comic Character and Counter-Violation: Critiquing Benign Violation Theory. In D. Derrin, & H. Burrows (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Humour, History, and Methodology (133-150). Palgrave Macmillan

The Palgrave Handbook of Humour, History, and Methodology (2021)
Book
Derrin, D., & Burrows, H. (Eds.). (2021). The Palgrave Handbook of Humour, History, and Methodology. Palgrave Macmillan

Pope’s Mythologies: Alexander Pope and Myth in the Early British Enlightenment (2021)
Book
Cousins, A., & Derrin, D. (Eds.). (in press). Pope’s Mythologies: Alexander Pope and Myth in the Early British Enlightenment. Routledge

Alexander Pope in the Reign of Queen Anne: Reconsiderations of his Early Career (2020)
Book
Cousins, A., & Derrin, D. (Eds.). (2020). Alexander Pope in the Reign of Queen Anne: Reconsiderations of his Early Career. Routlege

Painting Deformed Portraits: Humour in Pope's Early Prose (2020)
Book Chapter
Derrin, D. (2020). Painting Deformed Portraits: Humour in Pope's Early Prose. In A. Cousins, & D. Derrin (Eds.), Alexander Pope in the Reign of Queen Anne: Reconsiderations of his Early Career (153-174). Routledge

Review of "In the Event of Laughter: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Comedy" by Alfie Bown (2020)
Journal Article
Derrin, D. (2020). Review of "In the Event of Laughter: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Comedy" by Alfie Bown. Modern Language Review, 115(1), 147-148

Humour and Renaissance Culture: 1500-1660 (2018)
Book
Derrin, D. (in press). Humour and Renaissance Culture: 1500-1660. Routledge

Shakespeare and the Soliloquy in Early Modern English Drama (2018)
Book
Cousins, A., & Derrin, D. (Eds.). (2018). Shakespeare and the Soliloquy in Early Modern English Drama. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316779118

Encompassing nearly a century of drama, this is the first book to provide students and scholars with a truly comprehensive guide to the early modern soliloquy. Considering the antecedents of the form in Roman, late fifteenth and mid-sixteenth century... Read More about Shakespeare and the Soliloquy in Early Modern English Drama.

Contemplative Idiots in Soliloquy: Rhetorical Parody, Laughable Deformities and the Audience (2018)
Book Chapter
Derrin, D. (2018). Contemplative Idiots in Soliloquy: Rhetorical Parody, Laughable Deformities and the Audience. In A. Cousins, & D. Derrin (Eds.), Shakespeare and the Soliloquy in Early Modern English Drama (68-79). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316779118.006

Sine Dolore: Relative Painlessness in Shakespeare’s Laughter at War (2018)
Journal Article
Derrin, D. (2018). Sine Dolore: Relative Painlessness in Shakespeare’s Laughter at War. Critical Survey, 30(1), 81-97. https://doi.org/10.3167/cs.2018.300106

How do we understand Shakespeare’s invitation to laugh in the context of war? Previous critical accounts have offered too simple a view: that laughter undercuts military ideals. Instead, this essay draws on the Aristotelian description of the laughab... Read More about Sine Dolore: Relative Painlessness in Shakespeare’s Laughter at War.

Crackinge Thraso: the Braggart Soldier Image in Sixteenth-Century Sermons and Religious Polemic (2017)
Journal Article
Derrin, D. (2017). Crackinge Thraso: the Braggart Soldier Image in Sixteenth-Century Sermons and Religious Polemic. English Studies, 98(7), 704-716. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2017.1339991

The article contributes to recent debates about the use of “profane learning” by humanist scholars in the sixteenth century in their sermons and religious polemic. It does this by surveying the use of references in such texts to the braggart soldier... Read More about Crackinge Thraso: the Braggart Soldier Image in Sixteenth-Century Sermons and Religious Polemic.

Self-referring Deformities: Humour in Early Modern Sermon Literature (2016)
Journal Article
Derrin, D. (2018). Self-referring Deformities: Humour in Early Modern Sermon Literature. Literature and Theology, 32(3), 255-269. https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frw039

Few studies have addressed comprehensively the place of jesting in early modern pulpit rhetoric. This article documents some of the humour—jests and witty speech—in the period’s extant sermon literature. Specifically it identifies the analytical pote... Read More about Self-referring Deformities: Humour in Early Modern Sermon Literature.

Review of "Humour and Laughter in History: Transcultural Perspectives" edited by Elisabeth Cheauré and Regine Nohejl (2016)
Journal Article
Derrin, D. (in press). Review of "Humour and Laughter in History: Transcultural Perspectives" edited by Elisabeth Cheauré and Regine Nohejl. HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research, 31(4),

Rethinking Iago’s Jests in Othello II.i: Honestas, Imports and Laughable Deformity (2016)
Journal Article
Derrin, D. (online). Rethinking Iago’s Jests in Othello II.i: Honestas, Imports and Laughable Deformity. Renaissance Studies, https://doi.org/10.1111/rest.12219

An early scene in Act Two of Shakespeare's Othello is often cut or shortened. It is the one in which Iago jests with Desdemona while she waits and hopes for Othello to arrive safely in Cyprus (II.i.100–166). Critics and directors have found the scene... Read More about Rethinking Iago’s Jests in Othello II.i: Honestas, Imports and Laughable Deformity.

Rhetoric and the Commonplace in the Courtroom Defence Scene of Shakespeare's Othello (2015)
Journal Article
Derrin, D. (2015). Rhetoric and the Commonplace in the Courtroom Defence Scene of Shakespeare's Othello. Use of English, 66(3),

The Humorous Unseemly: Value, Contradiction and Consistency in the Comic Politics of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2014)
Journal Article
Derrin, D. (2014). The Humorous Unseemly: Value, Contradiction and Consistency in the Comic Politics of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Shakespeare, 11(4), 425-445

Review of "The English Clown Tradition from the Middle Ages to Shakespeare" by Robert Hornback (2014)
Journal Article
Derrin, D. (2014). Review of "The English Clown Tradition from the Middle Ages to Shakespeare" by Robert Hornback. Parergon, 31(2), 173-174

Shakespearean Comedy (2014)
Book Chapter
Derrin, D. (2014). Shakespearean Comedy. In S. Attardo (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Humor Studies (684-688). SAGE Publications

Subtle Persuasions: The Memory of Bodily Experience as a Rhetorical Device in Francis Bacon’s Parliamentary Speeches (2014)
Book Chapter
Derrin, D. (2014). Subtle Persuasions: The Memory of Bodily Experience as a Rhetorical Device in Francis Bacon’s Parliamentary Speeches. In D. Kambaskovic (Ed.), Conjunctions of Mind, Soul and Body from Plato to the Enlightenment (133-154). Springer Verlag

Rhetoric and the Familiar in Francis Bacon and John Donne (2013)
Book
Derrin, D. (2013). Rhetoric and the Familiar in Francis Bacon and John Donne. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Engaging the Passions in John Donne’s Sermons (2012)
Journal Article
Derrin, D. (2012). Engaging the Passions in John Donne’s Sermons. English Studies, 93(4), 452-468

Mens Businesse and Bosomes’: Bacon’s Thetical Rhetoric in ‘Of Truth’ and ‘Of Anger’ (2011)
Journal Article
Derrin, D. (2011). Mens Businesse and Bosomes’: Bacon’s Thetical Rhetoric in ‘Of Truth’ and ‘Of Anger’. Parergon, 28(1), 43-63