The String of Pearls
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The String of Pearls: A Domestic Romance is a story first published as a penny dreadful serial from 1846 to 1847. The main character of the story is Sweeney Todd, "the Demon Barber of Fleet Street". T
Page from The String of Pearls; or, The Sailor’s Gift, 1850
Sweeney Todd
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Sweeney Todd is a fictional character who first appeared as the villain of the penny dreadful serial The String of Pearls. The original tale became a feature of 19th-century melodrama and London legen
The String of Pearls
…alternatively titled The Sailor's Gift) is a story first published as a penny dreadful serial from 1846 to 1847. The main character of the story is Sweeney Todd, "the Demon Barber of Fleet Street". The story was the character's first literary appearance. Todd is a barber who murders his customers and gives their…
Justin Gaudoin and Phyllis Davis in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at the Wharf Theater, June 2018