But the comic situations in writers such as Shakespeare and Chaucer may have forced new understandings of humor. Although some of their humor can be seen as “relief 'there are other kinds of humor as well. Thomas Hobbes introduced what can be called the superiority or disparagement theory of humor. He does not, however, speak approvingly of it” [Book Review]

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