Shakespeare Spenser Donne Renaissance Essays - Routledge Library Editions: Shakespeare Author:Frank Kermode First published in 1971. — This collection of essays discusses some of the central works and areas of literature in the Renaissance period of cultural history. — Contents include: Spenser and the Allegorists; The Faerie Queene, I and V; The Cave of Mammon; The Banquet of Sense; John Donne; The Patience of Shakespeare; Survival fo the Clas... more »sic; Shakespeare's Learning; The Mature Comedies; The Final Plays.« less