Introduction: defining the politics of wit -- The bite of leviathan: Thomas Hobbes and philosophic drollery -- Libertine wit and the Collier Stage controversy -- The titans of wit -- Shaftesbury and the gentility of wit -- The trammels of Christian wit -- The hermeneutics of censorship and the crime of wit.
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