Donaldson, Ian, review of Ruth Nevo, Comic Transformations in Shakespeare, in Modern Language Review, 79.1 (1984), pp. 144–46, doi:10.2307/3730332

Donaldson, Ian, ‘Jonson and Anger’, in Satire: Essays in Memory of Robert C. Elliott 1914-1981, ed. by C. J. Rawson (= Yearbook of English Studies, 14.1 (1984)), pp. 56–71, doi:10.2307/3508302

Donaldson, Ian, review of Anne K. Mellor, English Romantic Irony, in Satire: Essays in Memory of Robert C. Elliott 1914-1981, ed. by C. J. Rawson (= Yearbook of English Studies, 14.1 (1984)), pp. 331–32, doi:10.2307/3508342

Donaldson, Ian, review of Alexander Leggatt, Ben Jonson: His Vision and His Art, in Literary Periodicals, ed. by C. J. Rawson (= Yearbook of English Studies, 16.1 (1986)), pp. 244–45, doi:10.2307/3507790

Donaldson, Ian, review of Terry Eagleton, The Rape of Clarissa: Writing, Sexuality and Class Struggle in Samuel Richardson, in Literary Periodicals, ed. by C. J. Rawson (= Yearbook of English Studies, 16.1 (1986)), pp. 262–64, doi:10.2307/3507803

Donaldson, Ian, ‘The Argument of "The Disabled Debauchee"’, in Modern Language Review, 82.1 (1987), pp. 30–34, doi:10.2307/3729912

Donaldson, Ian, review of Ben Jonson, R. B. Parker, Volpone or the Fox; A. R. Braunmuller, A Seventeenth-Century Letter-Book: A Facsimile Edition of Folger MS v.a.321, in Modern Language Review, 82.1 (1987), pp. 161–64, doi:10.2307/3729924

Donaldson, Ian, ‘Concealing and Revealing: Pope's "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot"’, in Pope, Swift, and Their Circle, ed. by C. J. Rawson (= Yearbook of English Studies, 18.1 (1988)), pp. 181–99, doi:10.2307/3508197