Captain Murderer who features terrifyingly in 'Nurse's Stories' in The Uncommercial Traveller (1860-8). Part Three, 'Visions and Revisions', ranges across the literary, dramatic, musical, radio, television and cinematic manifestations of Todd's story since its first appearance in 1846-7. Audiences clamoured for the drama. Of the revival at the Elephant Theatre, Southwark, in 1928, Mack writes, 'critics-and probably a great many audience members. .. demanded that their Sweeney Todd be played "straight". When they went to see Todd in the theatre, spectators wanted still to be genuinely frightened, and not simply titillated or amused.' A fascinating volume which will appeal to scholars and a general readership alike.
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