“I’m telling you, man. Miss Shannon gets all the best stuff.”
“I don’t get a big giant hammer to thump monsters with.”
“No, you just get a big giant cat with fangs and claws!”
“Check out the new updated Warrior of the Night Page folks.”
“I’m telling you, man. Miss Shannon gets all the best stuff.”
“I don’t get a big giant hammer to thump monsters with.”
“No, you just get a big giant cat with fangs and claws!”
“Check out the new updated Warrior of the Night Page folks.”
“That’s my best friend Shannon-sama! She’s a magical warrior just like us! She has the powers of the night and starlight and Kishi is her pet that helps her fight because he’s a magical cat.”
“I put this illustration of the Warrior of the Night up in my Sketchbook and Illustration Gallery too.”
“We’ve got a webnovel preview any second folks. Don’t miss out!”
Yesterday, Robert Mack, the editor of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, wrote about Dickens’s Influence. Today Mack looks the many incarnations of the tale. This post first appeared on Powell’s.
It wasn’t long before dramatists saw the potential of the Sweeney Todd story. In the same month that the final episode of the serialized novel was published in The People’s Periodical in March 1847, the first theatrical version appeared on stage under the story’s original title, The String of Pearls. Written by George Dibdin Pitt, it was the first version to use the catchphrase now most associated with Todd – ‘I’ll polish him off’. This was soon followed by another stage version in around 1865, under the title Sweeney Todd, the Barber of Fleet Street: or, the String of Pearls by Frederick Hazleton. Meanwhile various other versions of the story were appearing in print, often either hugely swollen or greatly abridged, all using Sweeney Todd as the title. (more…)