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Given the emergence of these common motifs of cannibalistic chefs making pies out of human flesh in seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth-century England and France, we might ask if Sweeney Todd was based on a real-life person.
Claims that Sweeney Todd was a real person were first made in the introduction to the 1850 (expanded) edition of The String of Pearls and have persisted to the present. [7] In two books, [2] [3] Peter Haining argued that Sweeney Todd was a historical person who committed his crimes around 1800.
Oct 31, 2022 · Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd is based on a musical of the same name, which was composed by the late Stephen Sondheim. Before that, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Butcher of Fleet Street was a play by Christopher Bond.
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Oct 30, 2019 · It’s not based on a true story. Within a year or two of its publication, other writers began adapting The String of Pearls, claiming it was based on fact. However, there’s never been any historical evidence for Sweeney Todd’s existence or his crimes.
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Jan 3, 2006 · Crime historian Peter Haining, who ploughed through the available evidence for 25 years before writing Sweeney Todd: The Real Story of the Demon Barber of Fleet Street in 1993, believes so.
Oct 9, 2020 · Sweeney Todd tells the story of a man driven mad after having the woman he loved stolen from him and getting accused for a crime he didn't commit. Upon release from prison, he plans to exact revenge on the man who caused his current lot in life, aided by the maniacal Mrs. Lovett.
Oct 16, 2017 · It has been generally accepted that Todd never actually existed and that, like Bram Stoker’s Count Dracula, he is an amalgam of different sources, a composite of obscure horror tales, known...
