Donaldson, Ian, review of Judith Kegan Gardiner, Craftsmanship in Context: The Development of Ben Jonson's Poetry, in Modern Language Review, 73.4 (1978), pp. 876–77, doi:10.2307/3727605

Donaldson, Ian, review of John D. Jump, Byron: 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' and Other Romantic Poems, in Modern Language Review, 73.4 (1978), p. 892, doi:10.2307/3727613

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, ‘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