Intro -- The Penn State Series in the History of the Book -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. "Consider What May Come of It": Prynne's Play and Charles's Stately Theater -- 2. Lovelace and the "Barbed Censurers" -- 3. Free Speech, Fallibility, and the Public Sphere: Milton Among the Skeptics -- 4. The Delicate Arts of Anonymity and Attribution -- 5. The Battle of the Books: Swift's Leviathan and the End of Licensing -- Conclusion: Dividing Lines-1689, 1695, and Afterward -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover