Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The plot concerns the strange disappearance of a sailor named Lieutenant Thornhill, last seen entering Sweeney Todd's establishment on Fleet Street. Thornhill was bearing a gift of a string of pearls to a girl named Johanna Oakley on behalf of her missing lover, Mark Ingestrie, who is presumed lost at sea.
It first appeared in 1845–1847 as a series of weekly cheap pamphlets of the kind then known as "penny dreadfuls". The author was paid by the typeset line, [1] so when the story was published in book form in 1847, it was of epic length: the original edition ran to 876 double-columned pages [2] and 232 chapters. [3]
Penny dreadfuls were cheap popular serial literature produced during the 19th century in the United Kingdom. The pejorative term is roughly interchangeable with penny horrible, penny awful, [1] and penny blood. [2] The term typically referred to a story published in weekly parts of 8 to 16 pages, each costing one penny. [3]
The title refers to the penny dreadfuls, a type of 19th-century cheap British fiction publication with lurid and sensational subject matter. The series premiered on Showtime on May 11, 2014. [1] After the third-season finale on June 19, 2016, series creator John Logan announced that Penny Dreadful had ended. [2]
When Showtime premiered Penny Dreadful a decade ago, we altogether expected a grand monster mash-up. And certainly, series creator John Logan delivered just that over the course of the three ...
Sweeney Todd is a fictional character who first appeared as the villain of the penny dreadful serial The String of Pearls (1846–1847). The original tale became a feature of 19th-century melodrama and London legend.
"Penny dreadfuls" were sensational serial publications of the nineteenth century which were issued in weekly penny parts. The main article for this category is Penny dreadful . Pages in category "Penny dreadfuls"
1 Plot summary. 2 In popular culture. ... Broad Arrow Jack is a penny dreadful written by E. Harcourt Burrage in 1866. ... This page was last edited on 10 September ...