Gideon Rappaport, Ph.D., also known as “Dr. Rap,” is a retired teacher and active theatrical dramaturge who has taught Shakespeare for fifty years in high school, college, graduate school, and adult education courses and served as dramaturge for professional productions of plays by Shakespeare and others and for the film Complete Works on Hulu,

in which he had his film acting debut.

 

He graduated from Cowell College, UC Santa Cruz, and earned his Ph.D. in English and American Literature at Brandeis University.

 

He is co-author of

Introduction to the Fundamental Liberal Arts: Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric,

 

editor of

Dusk and Dawn: Poems and Prose of

Philip Thompson

and

The Works of Charles Embree :

 The Descent of the Mop 

 The Third Thing Thing 

 Shorter Works

 

His own works, published by

One Mind Good Press include:

 

Appreciating Shakespeare 

 

William Shakespeare’s Hamlet

(a thoroughly annotated scholarly edition),

 

Shakespeare’s Rhetorical Figures: An Outline 

 

High School Homilies

(a collection of his public talks, reviews, letters to students, and blog posts)

and

Paradox 

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The books are available through local Bookstores and Linked above in amazon.

 

Doctor Rap's also on Audible 

 

Appreciating Shakespeare on Audible  

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​High School Homilies on Audible

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Paradox on Audible

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He has a podcast on

Buzzsprout called Appreciating Shakespeare

with Doctor Rap

 

and a YouTube channel called

Shakespeare’s Real Take.