Benjamin Barker served 15 years of a Life Sentence in a prison in Australia, which is what he called "a living hell". After he escapes Incarceration, he returns home to London on a ship, with a new friend, Anthony.
Anthony only knows Benjamin by his new name, Sweeney Todd. Sweeney Todd's real name is actually Benjamin Barker, a barber who was accused of a crime he didn't commit. He was sentenced for life in a prison in Australia, but managed to escape after 15 years. When Barker returns to London, he decides to start over again, and returns with the name Sweeney Todd so no one will recognize him by name. He heads to his old home, which is now owned by the lady Mrs. Lovett ; an absent-minded woman who had turned the first floor into a pie shop and restaurant whilst not touching the second floor other than to hide Barker's razors.
Suspecting Sweeney Todd is Benjamin Barker, she tells him that his wife Lucy was taken by Judge Turpin and that he had also taken his daughter Johanna. Lovett continues the story and tells Todd that Lucy poisoned herself many years ago with arsenic from the local pharmacy.
After hearing her fate, Sweeney Todd understands it is Judge Turpin who had ruined his life, and swears revenge on him. In some versions of the Sweeney Todd story, Mrs. There is no transcript for a trial of a Sweeney Todd , nor for that matter any similar crimes.
A case so notorious would doubtless have attracted the attention of pamphleteers and journalists and would, no doubt, receive millions of hits on the Old Bailey website. Yet history is silent on actual cold facts about the case and the Old Bailey transcripts don't show up anywhere at all on Google for the search term Sweeney Todd Trial at the Old Bailey.
Yet the story of Sweeny Todd has never lost its popularity and this hideous creation and his foul deeds continue to shock and thrill in equal measure in television dramas and most recently in the film Sweeney Todd starring Johnny Depp. So what was the inspiration for this bloodthirsty tome and was there a real life counterpart upon whom the creators and developers of one of the most famous and long lasting Victorian melodramas based the character? Although the Sweeney Todd story as we know it today first appeared between November and March in Edward Lloyd's The People's Periodical and Family Library as an eighteen part serial entitled The String of Pearls: A Romance, the story drew upon and was heavily influenced by several previous well known fictions.
In the 's Lloyd had made something of a name for himself by plagiarising the works of Charles Dickens. Oliver Twiss and Nikelas Nickelberry were just two of Lloyds attempts to capitalise on the success and storylines of the 19th century's greatest author. Inevitably Dickens also part influenced Lloyd's most enduring storyline, that of Sweeny Todd.
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