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sweeney todd

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1. Todd, Sweeney Toddnoun

   fictional character in a play by George Pitt; a barber who murdered his customers

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1. Sweeney Todd

   Sweeney Todd is a fictional character who first appeared as the villain of the penny dreadful serial The String of Pearls (1846–47). The original tale became a feature of 19th-century melodrama and London legend. A barber from Fleet Street, Todd murders his customers with a straight razor and gives their corpses to Mrs. Lovett, his partner in crime, who bakes their flesh into meat pies. The tale has been retold many times since in various media.Claims that Sweeney Todd was a historical person are disputed strongly by scholars, although possible legendary prototypes exist.

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1. sweeney todd

   Sweeney Todd is a fictional character, appearing as a central figure in various adaptations of a Victorian penny dreadful tale called "The String of Pearls." He is typically depicted as a menacing barber in 19th-century London who kills his customers with a straight razor, after which their bodies are turned into meat pies and sold in the pie shop of his partner-in-crime, Mrs. Lovett. The character has been portrayed in numerous movies, musicals, and theatrical performances.

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1. Sweeney Todd

   Sweeney Todd is a fictional character who first appeared as the murderer of the Victorian penny dreadful The String of Pearls. In 1979, he was introduced as an antihero in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and its 2007 film adaptation of the same name. Claims that Sweeney Todd was a historical person are strongly disputed by scholars, although possible legendary prototypes exist. In the original version of the tale, Todd is a barber who dispatches his victims by pulling a lever as they sit in his barber chair. His victims fall backward down a revolving trapdoor into the basement of his shop, generally causing them to break their necks or skulls. In case they are alive, Todd goes to the basement and "polishes them off". In some adaptations, the murdering process is reversed, with Todd slitting his customers' throats before dispatching them into the basement via the revolving trapdoor. After Todd has robbed his dead victims of their goods, Mrs. Lovett, his partner in crime, assists him in disposing of the bodies by baking their flesh into meat pies and selling them to the unsuspecting customers of her pie shop. Todd's barber shop is situated at 186 Fleet Street, London, next to St. Dunstan's church, and is connected to Mrs. Lovett's pie shop in nearby Bell Yard by means of an underground passage. In most versions of the story, he and Mrs. Lovett hire an unwitting orphan boy, Tobias Ragg, to serve the pies to customers.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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