Sweeney Todd
The trailer to Sweeney Todd.
The trailer to Sweeney Todd.
Happy birthday J.R.R. Tolkien!
Robert Mack teaches us about Sweeney Todd.
The incarnations of Sweeney Todd.
Yesterday, Robert Mack, the editor of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, wrote about the unknown author of Sweeney Todd. Today Mack looks at Dickens’s influence. This post first appeared on Powell’s. The original publisher of Sweeney Todd, Edward Lloyd, in whose journal The People’s Periodical and Family Library first appeared in 1846-7, […]
Who wrote Sweeney Todd?
A closer look at Sweeney Todd.
Ben Zimmer looks at the origin of the word “movie.”
A look at the film Numb.
An excerpt from Mae West: An Icon in Black and White.
Do you see any similarities between Beowulf and any particular modern day hero?
Which do you think of changing the endings to literary masterpieces?
David Nash, author of ‘Blasphemy in the Christian World’, takes a look at the outrage surrounding Monty Python’s ‘Life of Brian’.
A podcast of James Monaco and Laurent Tirard talking about Moliere.
This month we feature the actor and director Sam Wanamaker, born in Chicago on 14 June 1919 and best known in Britain as the inspiration behind London’s Globe Theatre.
A closer look at The Departed.