Examining Sondheim's Sweeney Todd (on stage and in the 2007 Tim Burton film) in relation to The String of Pearls and Oliver! provides a potent vehicle for considering how we have come to understand Victorianness through what we read as Dickensian. Sondheim intensifies the Victorianness of his play not by closely following the nineteenth-century source but by inserting details chiefly inherited from Dickens's Oliver Twist and, perhaps more surprisingly, from the 1960 musical adaptation Oliver!. Sweeney Todd Stephen Sondheim, Hugh Wheeler, Christopher Bond Nick Hern, 1991 - Barbers - 156 pages 8 Reviews Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when. It is from Dickens-and later adaptations of Dickens-rather than from the Victorian novel from which Sweeney Todd descends that Sondheim receives and assembles the traits that we interpret as Victorian. In contrast, Sondheim's adaptation reinserts the kind of social criticism viewers associate with Dickens. Yet Prest crucially leaves out Dickens's powerful social critique. Lovett, the pie maker, and provides her with fillings for her pies. Anthony falls in love with a young girl, the Judge's ward, who turns out to be Todd's daughter. The novel is often attributed to Thomas Peckett Prest, who so blatantly copied Dickens that he frequently wrote under the name 'Bos.' Certainly The String of Pearls imitates some identifiable characteristics of Dickens's writing-outrageous characters, Pickwickian humor, and a sensational Newgate plot, like Oliver Twist's. He returns to avenge his family, accompanied by a sea captain, Anthony, whose life he has saved. Based on the Christopher Bond play of the same name, Sweeney Todd centers on its titular barber who seeks revenge on a corrupt judge and turns to murder, with neighbor and accomplice Mrs. The 1979 Stephen Sondheim/Hugh Wheeler musical Sweeney Todd derives (through Christopher Bond's 1973 melodrama) from the anonymously authored The String of Pearls (1846-47).

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