Dr Gideon Rappaport CV 2026
Email: grappap@zoho.com
Education and Degrees
~B.A.: English Literature and Art History
(double major, Honors in majors,General College Honors)
Cowell College, University of California at Santa Cruz, CA(1970)
~M.A. Coursework: Hebrew, Latin, English literature, history, art history
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel (1970–71)
~M.A.: English and American Literature
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (1973)
~Ph.D.: English and American Literature
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (1979),
Dissertation: “Some Special Uses of the Soliloquy in Shakespeare”
~Instructor Credential: Language Arts and Literature
California Community Colleges (1981, valid for life)
Teaching Positions Held
~Visiting Lecturer:
English Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (1980)
~Visiting Assistant Professor:
English Hamilton College, Clinton, NY (1980–81)
~Visiting Lecturer: English State University of New York, Cortland, NY (1981)
~Instructor: English
Palomar College, San Marcos, CA (1981–84)
Mira Costa College, Oceanside, CA (1981–83)
Miramar College, San Diego, CA (1983)
~Visiting Assistant Professor: English
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH (1984–85)
~Teacher: English, Humanities
The Bishop's School, La Jolla, CA (1985–2007)
~Teacher: English, Humanities
La Jolla Country Day School, La Jolla, CA (2007–2017)
Theatrical Dramaturgy
~Assistant to the Dramaturge:
Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, CA (1981)
As You Like It
~Dramaturge:
Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, CA (1982)
The Tempest
Taming of the Shrew
Local Collaboration, San Diego, CA (1991)
The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus
~California Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley/Orinda, CA (1996)
Twelfth Night
~British-American Youth Festival Theatre (Bayfest)
R & J (adaptation of Romeo and Juliet), San Diego, CA (1999)
The Rake’s Progress, Seattle, WA (2000)
The Winter’s Tale, San Diego, CA (2013)
~San Diego Repertory Theatre, San Diego, CA
Merchant of Venice (2002)
King Lear (2005)
~North Coast Repertory Theatre, Solana Beach, CA
Romeo and Juliet (2005)
My Name Is Asher Lev (2011)
The Tempest, with Mira Costa College (2011)
Henry IV, Part I, with Mira Costa College (2012)
~San Diego Shakespeare Society (2007)
King Lear
Diversionary Theatre (2011)
Edward II
~Moonlight Theatre, Vista, CA (2012, 2025)
Fiddler on the Roof
~The Bishop’s School, La Jolla, CA (1985–2018)
Taming of the Shrew
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Twelfth Night (2)
Henry IV, Part I
Romeo and Juliet (3)
Hamlet
Macbeth
Pericles
La Jolla Country Day School, La Jolla, CA (2007–2017)
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Much Ado about Nothing
Hamlet (dramatic reading)
~Two student winners of the English-Speaking Union’s Annual
San Diego
~Shakespeare Competition
Two student winners of third place in English-Speaking Union’s Annual
~National Shakespeare Competition
Working Actors Theatre, Nathan Agin Producer, online productions
(2021)
Much Ado about Nothing
Merry Wives of Windsor
2Scenes from King Lear, Richard III, Troilus and Cressida, Twelfth
Night, Merry Wives, Macbeth
~Tom Haine Productions (2021)
Julius Caesar
Hamlet
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Tempest
~Sierra Repertory Theatre, Sonora, CA (2026)
Fiddler on the Roof
Guest Lectures
~San Diego Shakespeare Society, San Diego, CA
~Institute for Continued Learning, University of California at
San Diego, CA
~University of the Third Age, University of San Diego, CA
Honors Seminars of San Diego City Schools GATE Program
~Friends of the Vista Library, Vista, CA
~Friends of the Valley Center Library, Valley Center, CA
~Friends of the Clairemont Library, San Diego, CA
~San Diego Shakespeare Society Evening of Sonnets at
the Old Globe Theatre,San Diego, CA
~National Association of Independent Schools conventions
~California Association of Independent Schools conventions
~Adult evening courses, The Bishop’s School, La Jolla, CA
~Private Reading Club, La Jolla, CA
~Palomar College (with Actor/Director Joe Vincent), San Marcos, CA
~Vista Community Theatre Readers’ Theater, Vista, CA
1230 Club, La Jolla, CA
~San Diego Center for Jewish Culture, San Diego, CA
~San Diego Oxbridge Society:
Magic, Science, Sacrifice, and Sacrament:
Shakespeare’s Tempest as Prequel to the Abolition of Man
Publications
~Solomon’s House: A Self-Conscious History of
Cowell College (Cowell College,University of California at
Santa Cruz, 1970),
co-author and co-editor
“Another Sonnet in Romeo and Juliet” (Notes and Queries XXV, No. 2, April 1978)
“Measuring Measure for Measure” (Renascence XXXIX, No. 4, Summer 1987)
“Hamlet: Revenge and Readiness” (Upstart Crow VII, 1987)
“Dead Poets and Living Clichés” (Independent School XLIX, No. 2, Winter 1990)
“The Merchant of Venice is a comedy, but its
condition in our time is tragic,” Op-ed piece (Santa Cruz Sentinel,
July 17, 1994)
“Lenore Tolegian Hughes: Faces of Change” (Ararat XXXVII, No. 1, Winter
1996)
“The Ghost Writer” (San Diego Union Tribune, Apr. 30, 2000), review of The Human Stain by Phillip Roth
“Bellow, The Rain King” (San Diego Union Tribune, Oct. 22, 2000), review of Bellow by James Atlas
“Mary Holmes: A Biographical Sketch” in Addi Somekh and Charlie Eckert,
Mary Holmes: Paintings and Ideas (Los Altos, California: Very Press,
2002)
Dusk and Dawn: Poems and Prose of Philip Thompson (One Mind Good Press,2005), editor
Review of Socrates: A Man for Our Time by Paul Johnson, Washington
Independent Review of Books, October 19, 2011
Review of Ben Jonson: A Life by Ian Donaldson, Washington Independent Review of Books, Snapshots, April 6, 2012
Introduction to the Fundamental Liberal Arts: Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric, co-author (Whole Mind Press -Need Link- , 2015)
‘Taming of the Shrew’ and Today’s Sensibilities,” The Epoch Times,
April 19, 2021 Link Here
“Shakespeare’s Last Act,” The Epoch Times, March 8, 2022
“Hamlet’s ‘To Be or Not to Be’ Really,” The Epoch Times, May 17, 2022
“A Couple of Kings’ Couplets,” The Epoch Times, June 19,2022
Review of Life Is Beautiful, The Epoch Times, October 3, 2022
Appreciating Shakespeare (One Mind Good Press, 2022; audiobook 2024)
William Shakespeare’s Hamlet (One Mind Good Press, 2023)
Shakespeare’s Rhetorical Figures: An Outline (One Mind Good Press, 2024)
High School Homilies (One Mind Good Press, 2024; audiobook, 2025)
Paradox (One Mind Good Press, 2024; audiobook, 2025)
The Works of Charles Embree, 3 volumes (One Mind Good Press, 2026)
Podcasts
“Appreciating Shakespeare”: Link Here
Four Courses Taught
Graduate: Shakespeare
Undergraduate: Shakespeare
Chaucer/Middle English
Freshman Composition
Modern Fiction
British Literature Survey
Introduction to Literature
High School:
Shakespeare
Advanced Placement Literature and Composition
(Western great books)
Humanities: Philosophy and Literature (Western and Eastern)
Sophomore English and Composition (British literature survey)
Junior English and Composition (British literature survey)
Senior English and Composition (World literature)
Independent Studies (Shakespeare, Humanities: Philosophy and Literature,C.S. Lewis)
The Trivium (Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric)
Adult Education:
Shakespeare:
Shakespeare Survey (Twelfth Night, Henry IV, Part I, Measure for
Measure, King Lear, The Winter’s Tale)
Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Shakespeare: Major Tragedies
Shakespeare’s Second History Tetralogy
Shakespeare’s Roman Plays
Shakespeare’s Late Plays
Selected History Plays of Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s King Lear
Shakespeare’s Non-Dramatic Poetry
Two Shakespearean Misfits (Merchant of Venice, Timon of Athens)
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival Plays of Shakespeare for 2004
(Henry VI, Parts I, II, and III, Comedy of Errors, Much
Ado about Nothing, King Lear)
Love and War
(Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Antony and Cleopatra)
Jealousy in Tragedy and Romance
(Shakespeare’s Othello and The Winter’s Tale)
The Merchant of Venice: Temporal Values, Universal Truths
Tyrants and Magicians: Four Renaissance Plays
(Marlowe,Shakespeare)
“Shakespeare’s Real Treatment of Jews, Women, Blacks,
and Revenge”:
The Merchant of Venice: “Hath Not a Jew Eyes?”
Measure for Measure: The Marriage of Justice and Mercy
Othello: What Is the Cause?
Hamlet: Divine Shaping
“End of the World”:
Troilus and Cressida: Link Here
Macbeth: Link Here
Pericles: Link Here
Shakespeare’s History Plays:
Richard III:
Richard II
Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV, Part 2
Henry V
Shakespeare in Defense of Good Women
Dante’s Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso)
~Six Poets: Donne, Herbert, Milton, Wordsworth, Yeats, Thompson
~Seven Poets: Images of Man
~Humanities: Philosophy and Literature (team-taught with Richard
Kirk)
~Philosophy through Literature
~Modern Values, Ancient Wisdom
~Form and Content: Two or One? A Short Course in
Modern Poetry
~A Course on C.S. Lewis
Awards and Honors
~James G. Scripps Chair in English, The Bishop’s School, La Jolla, CA
~Richard B. Wilson Award, Greater San Diego Council of Teachers of English
~Best High School Teacher, First Place, 2004 La Jolla Light Readers’ Poll (“Bestof La Jolla”)
