Humour and Renaissance Culture: 1500-1660
(2018)
Book
Derrin, D. (in press). Humour and Renaissance Culture: 1500-1660. Routledge
Outputs (4)
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/10.1017/9781316779118Encompassing 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.2018.300106How 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.