McDonald, Russ. 2016. Sounds and Sweet Airs. Opera, 67(1), pp. 4-14. ISSN 1657-8651 [Article]

McDonald, Russ. 2012. Benjamin Britten’s Dreams. Shakespeare Survey, 65, pp. 138-146. ISSN 0080-9152 [Article]

McDonald, Russ. 1998. Explication Checklist. Shakespeare Magazine, II(1), [Article]

McDonald, Russ. 1997. Shakespeare With Tears. Shakespeare Magazine, I(3), [Article]

McDonald, Russ. 1995. Shakespeare Goes to High School: Some Current Practices in the American Classroom. Shakespeare Quarterly, 46, pp. 18-27. ISSN 0037-3222 [Article]

McDonald, Russ. 1989. Richard III and the Tropes of Treachery. Philological Quarterly, 68(4), pp. 465-483. ISSN 0031-7977 [Article]

McDonald, Russ. 1985. Poetry and Plot in The Winter's Tale. Shakespeare Quarterly, 36, pp. 315-329. ISSN 0037-3222 [Article]

McDonald, Russ. 1982. “Comedy and Flannery O'Connor,”. South Atlantic Quarterly, 81, pp. 188-201. ISSN 0038-2876 [Article]

McDonald, Russ. 1981. Jonsonian Comedy and the Value of Sejanus. Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, 21, pp. 287-305. [Article]

McDonald, Russ. 1979. Othello, Thorello, and the Problem of the Foolish Hero. Shakespeare Quarterly, 30, pp. 51-67. ISSN 0037-3222 [Article]

McDonald, Russ. 2007. Compar or parison: Measure for Measure. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521866408 [Book]

McDonald, Russ. 2006. Shakespeare's Late Style. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521820684 [Book]

McDonald, Russ. 2005. Look to the Lady: Sarah Siddons, Ellen Terry, and Judi Dench on the Shakespearean Stage. The University of Georgia Press. ISBN 0820325066 [Book]

McDonald, Russ. 2001. Bedford Companion to Shakespeare: An Introduction with Documents. Palgrave Macmillan; 2nd Edition. ISBN 978-0333947111 [Book]

McDonald, Russ. 2001. Shakespeare and the Arts of Language. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198711719 [Book]

McDonald, Russ. 2019. Macbeth and the Power of Poetry. In: Paul Menzer and Amy R. Cohen, eds. Shakespeare in the Light: Essays in Honor of Ralph Alan Cohen. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 53-62. ISBN 9781683931645 [Book Section]

McDonald, Russ. 2017. Rhetoric and Theater. In: Michael MacDonald, ed. The Oxford Companion to Rhetoric. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 449-460. ISBN 9780199731596 [Book Section]

McDonald, Russ. 2016. Ornament. In: Bruce Smith, ed. The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107057258 [Book Section]

McDonald, Russ. 2016. “Ben Jonson” and miscellaneous entries on Rhetoric. In: Patricia Parker, ed. The Shakespeare Encyclopedia: Life, Works, World, and Legacy. Westport: Greenwood Press,. ISBN 9780313336393 [Book Section]

McDonald, Russ. 2015. Poetry and Plot in The Winter's Tale. In: Maurice Hunt, ed. The Winter's Tale: Critical Essays. Routledge. ISBN 978-1138864221 [Book Section]

McDonald, Russ. 2013. Peggy of Anjou. In: Gordon McMullan; Lena Cowen Orlin and Virginia Mason Vaughan, eds. Women Making Shakespeare: Text, Reception and Performance. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781408185339 [Book Section]

McDonald, Russ. 2013. The Language of Tragedy. In: Russ McDonald, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 23-50. ISBN 978-1107019775 [Book Section]

McDonald, Russ. 2013. The Language of Tragedy. In: Claire McEachern, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 23-49. ISBN 978-1107643321 [Book Section]

McDonald, Russ. 2013. ‘Pretty Rooms’: Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Elizabethan Architecture, and Early Modern Visual Design. In: Jonathan Post, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 486-504. ISBN 9780199607747 [Book Section]

McDonald, Russ. 2013. ‘Pretty Rooms’: Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Elizabethan Architecture, and Early Modern Visual Design. In: Jonathan Post, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry. Oxford: OUP Oxford, pp. 486-503. ISBN 978-0199607747 [Book Section]

McDonald, Russ and Wright, George T. 2012. English Prosody. In: Stephen Cushman; Clare Cavanagh; Jahan Ramazani and Paul Rouzer, eds. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics 4th edition. Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 432-434. ISBN 978-0691133348 [Book Section]

McDonald, Russ. 2012. Telling Stories. In: Russ McDonald; Nicholas Nace and Travis D Williams, eds. Shakespeare Up Close: Reading Early Modern Texts. London: Arden Shakespeare, pp. 216-224. ISBN 978-1408158784 [Book Section]

McDonald, Russ. 2011. “Orpheus Among the Savages: Handel in London,”. In: , ed. Glyndebourne Program Essay. [Book Section]

McDonald, Russ. 2010. Sarah Siddons. In: Peter Holland and Adiran Poole, eds. Garrick, Kemble, Siddons, Kean: Great Shakespeareans Volume II. London, UK: Continuum. ISBN 9781441157874 [Book Section]

McDonald, Russ. 2010. “‘To Serve the Poet’: Verdi’s Macbeth,”. In: , ed. Glyndebourne Program Essay. [Book Section]

McDonald, Russ. 2009. “Shakespeare Transposed: Falstaff”. In: , ed. Glyndebourne Program Essay. [Book Section]

McDonald, Russ. 2009. 'You speak a language that I understand not': listening to the last plays. In: Catherine M. S. Alexander, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Last Plays. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 91-112. ISBN 9780521881784 [Book Section]

McDonald, Russ. 2009. “‘You speak a language that I understand not’: The Poetry of the Romances,”. In: Catherine M. Alexander, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s Romances. Cambridge University Press. [Book Section]

McDonald, Russ. 2008. High Seriousness and Popular Form: The Case of The Maid of Honour. In: Douglas Howard, ed. Philip Massinger: A Critical Reassessment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 83-116. ISBN 978-0521065429 [Book Section]

McDonald, Russ. 2008. “Planned Obsolescence, or Working at the Words,”. In: G B Shand, ed. Teaching Shakespeare: Passing It On. Blackwell Publishing,, pp. 27-42. ISBN 978-1405140461 [Book Section]

McDonald, Russ. 2007. Compar or parison: Measure for Measure. In: Sylvia Adamson; Gavin Alexander and Katrin Ettenhuber, eds. Renaissance Figures of Speech. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 33-58. ISBN 9780521866408 [Book Section]

McDonald, Russ. 2006. The Flaw in the Flaw. In: Peggy O'Brien, ed. Shakespeare Set Free: Teaching Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth & Midsummer Night. Simon & Schuster, pp. 8-11. ISBN 978-0743288507 [Book Section]

McDonald, Russ. 2006. Sex, Lies, and Shakespearean Drama. In: Peggy O'Brien, ed. Teaching Twelfth Night and Othello: Shakespeare Set Free. Simon & Schuster, pp. 3-10. ISBN 978-0743288514 [Book Section]

McDonald, Russ. 2005. Fashion: Shakespeare and Beaumont and Fletcher. In: Richard Dutton and Jean E Howard, eds. A Companion to Shakespeare's Works: The Poems, Problem Comedies, Late Plays:. 4 John Wiley & Sons, pp. 150-174. ISBN 978-1405136082 [Book Section]

McDonald, Russ. 2004. Late Shakespeare: Style and the Sexes. In: Catherine M. Alexander, ed. Shakespeare and Language. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge University Press, pp. 266-288. ISBN 978-0521539005 [Book Section]

McDonald, Russ. 2004. “Marlowe and Style,”. In: Patrick Cheney, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Marlowe. Cambridge University Press, pp. 55-69. ISBN 978-0521820349 [Book Section]

McDonald, Russ. 2003. Reading The Tempest. In: Catherine M. Alexander, ed. The Cambridge Shakespeare Library 3 Volume Hardback Set: Shakespeare's Times, Texts and Stages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521824330 [Book Section]

McDonald, Russ. 2003. Shakespeare’s Verse. In: Stanley Wells and Lena Orlin, eds. Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide. Oxford: OUP Oxford, pp. 79-92. ISBN 978-0199245222 [Book Section]

McDonald, Russ. 2002. Reading The Tempest. In: Donald Kesey, ed. Contexts for Criticism. McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages; 4 edition. ISBN 978-0767422963 [Book Section]

McDonald, Russ. 2001. Poetry and Plot in The Winter's Tale. In: , ed. Shakespeare Yearbook. Gale Press. [Book Section]

McDonald, Russ. 2000. Jonson and Shakespeare and the Rhythm of Verse. In: Stanley Stewart and Richard Harp, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 103-118. ISBN 978-0521646789 [Book Section]

McDonald, Russ. 1998. Reading The Tempest. In: Virginia Vaughan and Alden Vaughan, eds. Critical Essays on “The Tempest. New York: G. K. Hall. [Book Section]

McDonald, Russ. 1997. “Odious Tandem,” Introduction to Shakespeare and Jonson / Jonson and Shakespeare. In: Robert Watson, ed. Critical Essays on Ben Jonson. G K Hall. ISBN 978-0783800431 [Book Section]

McDonald, Russ. 1997. Reading The Tempest. In: Donald Kesey, ed. Contexts for Criticism. McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages; 3 edition. ISBN 978-1559348447 [Book Section]

McDonald, Russ. 1994. Late Shakespeare: Style and the Sexes. In: Stanley Wells, ed. Shakespeare Survey 46. Cambridge University Press, pp. 91-106. ISBN 978-0521450270 [Book Section]

McDonald, Russ. 1994. Late Shakespeare: Style and the Sexes. In: Stanley Wells, ed. Shakespeare Survey 46. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521450270 [Book Section]

McDonald, Russ. 1992. Reading The Tempest. In: , ed. Shakespeare Yearbook. Gale Press. [Book Section]

McDonald, Russ. 1991. Reading The Tempest. In: Stanley Wells, ed. Shakespeare Survey: Volume 43, The Tempest and After. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 15-28. ISBN 978-0521395298 [Book Section]

McDonald, Russ. 1988. Fear of Farce. In: Maurice Charney, ed. Bad Shakespeare: Revaluations of the Shakespeare Canon. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr, pp. 77-90. ISBN 978-0838633106 [Book Section]

McDonald, Russ. 1981. Sceptical Visions: Shakespeare's Tragedies and Jonson's Comedies. In: Stanley Wells, ed. Shakespeare Survey, 34. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 131-147. ISBN 978-0521523721 [Book Section]

McDonald, Russ and Cowen Orlin, Lena, eds. 2014. The Bedford Shakespeare. Boston: Bedford St. Martins. ISBN 978-0312439637 [Edited Book]

McDonald, Russ; Nace, Nicholas and Williams, Travis D, eds. 2012. Shakespeare Up Close: Reading Early Modern Texts. London: Bloomsbury/Arden. ISBN 978-1408158784 [Edited Book]

McDonald, Russ, ed. 2003. Shakespeare: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory, 1945-2000. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-0631234883 [Edited Book]