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Sweeney Todd

The Real Story of the Demon Barber of Fleet Street

by Peter Haining · September 30, 1993

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Argues that the legendary character Sweeney Todd was an actual historical figure who committed his crimes in eighteenth-century London and was victimized by the poverty and crime that was prevalent in the underworld of that time period.

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