Dr Daniel Derrin's Outputs (3)

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. (2017). Rethinking Iago’s Jests in Othello II.i: Honestas, Imports and Laughable Deformity. Renaissance Studies, 31(3), 365-382. 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.