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Russ McDonald (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) has served as a trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America and for ten years was associated with the Teaching Shakespeare Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. A celebrated teacher, McDonald has taught at Mississippi show more State University, the University of Hawaii, and the University of Rochester, where he won both the University Student Life Award and the Student Association Teaching Award. He is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro show less

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Works by Russ McDonald

Shakespeare: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1945-2000 (2004) 75 copies

Shakespeare and the Arts of Language (2001) 45 copies

Shakespeare Up Close: Reading Early Modern Texts (Arden Shakespeare Library) (2012) — Editor — 15 copies

Shakespeare Reread: The Texts in New Contexts (1994) 13 copies

Shakespeare's Late Style (2006) 10 copies

Shakespeare and Jonson/Jonson and Shakespeare (1988) 7 copies

Look to the Lady: Sarah Siddons, Ellen Terry, and Judi Dench on the Shakespearean Stage (Georgia Southern University Jack N. & Addie D. Averitt ... Jack N. and Addie D. Averitt… (2005) 7 copies

The Hamlet and Twelfth Night and Bedford Companion to Shakespeare 2e and Macbeth and: Taming of the Shrew and Tempest an (2002) 2 copies

Modernist Literary Collaborations between Women and Men (2022) 2 copies

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A Midsummer Night's Dream (1600) — Introduction, some editions — 22,856 copies, 208 reviews

The Bedford Shakespeare (2014) 24 copies

The Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies (2017) — Contributor — 20 copies

Shakespeare in Our Time: A Shakespeare Association of America Collection (2016) — Contributor — 17 copies

Philip Massinger : a critical reassessment (1985) — Contributor — 3 copies

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Birthdate: 1949-06-29
Date of death: 2016-07-01
Gender: male
Occupations: Professor of English Literature, Goldsmiths College, University of London
English professor, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Organizations: Shakespeare Association of America
Cause of death: stroke

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The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare : An Introduction with Documents by Russ McDonald

Amazon: The Bedford Companion is less about The Bard, and more so about the times in which he lived. While attention is given to his plays, equal attention is given to such things as the history of the Globe Theater, Shakespeare's early life, the economic situations of the time, and a history of Shakespeare appreciation, or "Bardolatry". It shows Shakespeare as a human, as a buisinessman, a family man, and how he eventually become know as the greatest writer in the English language. (Most of show more his plays weren't published until after his death.) This book may not help you fully understand Hamlet, but it can certainly make it more interesting. show less

May 9, 2006