Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. Reformation

3. The Original Guy

4. The First Public Guy

5. First Bonfire Day

6. Gunpowder Days in England: The Pope and the Guy

7. Pope Night in America: Diminishing Guy in the New World

8. My Pronoun, ’tis of Thee: Thou Art Lost and Gone Forever

9. Guys in Rags

10. Ladies and Gentlemen

11. Roadblocks

12. Villain Becomes Hero: The Modern Guy Fawkes

13. Guys Victorious

14. Future Guys

Further Reading: Notes on Sources

Index