How do you do an MLA citation for a book that has two authors with the same last name?

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I am doing a research paper on the Grimm brothers' fairy tales. In my list of references on the works cited there is information for a book with two authors and two or more works by the same author, but nothing that pertains to my particular problem!! It seems that it is not a common enough problem that they would put it in the book. But of course when I have to write a paper I come across that problem. Help please!
 
Cite both names. The fact that they are the same name is immaterial; they are two separate authors.

When cited parenthetically:

"The average temperature of the ocean is rising by one-half degree each decade" (Hambridge & Hambridge, 2007).

When cited in narrative:

As Hambridge and Hambridge (2007) demonstrated, the average . . . .
 
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