Christopher Page is Emeritus Professor of English in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of the British Academy. He writes on the social and musical life of the guitar in England from the 1500s onwards. The Guitar in Tudor England (Cambridge, 2015) won the Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize of the American Musical Instrument Society in 2017.

• Contents; List of musical examples; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. A Victorian Conspectus; 2. Guitar players and their repertoires to the 1860s; 3. The book of acts; 4. New opportunities from the 1860s onwards: penny readings and Amateur concerts; 5. Madame Catharina Josepha Pratten and others; 6. The guitarists of the streets; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Bibliography.

Christopher Page is Emeritus Professor of English in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of the British Academy. He writes on the social and musical life of the guitar in England from the 1500s onwards. The Guitar in Tudor England (Cambridge, 2015) won the Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize of the American Musical Instrument Society in 2017.

• Contents; List of musical examples; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. A Victorian Conspectus; 2. Guitar players and their repertoires to the 1860s; 3. The book of acts; 4. New opportunities from the 1860s onwards: penny readings and Amateur concerts; 5. Madame Catharina Josepha Pratten and others; 6. The guitarists of the streets; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Bibliography.

Christopher Page is Emeritus Professor of English in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of the British Academy. He writes on the social and musical life of the guitar in England from the 1500s onwards. The Guitar in Tudor England (Cambridge, 2015) won the Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize of the American Musical Instrument Society in 2017.

• Contents; List of musical examples; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. A Victorian Conspectus; 2. Guitar players and their repertoires to the 1860s; 3. The book of acts; 4. New opportunities from the 1860s onwards: penny readings and Amateur concerts; 5. Madame Catharina Josepha Pratten and others; 6. The guitarists of the streets; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Bibliography.