Contents

• List of Figures
• About Sweeney Todd
  • Introduction
  • Methodology
  
  
• Synopsis
  • Prologue
  • Act I
  • Act II
  
  
• The Historical Truth, or how a legend came to be
  • ''Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd...''
    • The historic facts
    • How the tale was written
  
  
• Drama
  • General Observations
    • What is Drama?
  • Communication structures
    • Epic communication structures
    • Perspective
  
  
• Verbal communication
  • The functions of speech and language
    • Referential function
    • Expressive or emotive function
    • Appellative function
    • Phatic function
    • Metalingual function
    • Poetic function
  • Verbal communication and Action
  • Verbal communication and the dramatic figure
    • Benjamin Barker alias Sweeney Todd
    • Mrs. Nellie Lovett
    • Anthony Hope
    • Johanna
    • Judge Turpin
  • The super-imposition of epic communication structures on figure reference
  • The super-imposition of references to the situation on figure reference
  • Characterization through language
    • Explicit self-representation
    • Implicit self-representation
  • Monological speech
    • Monologue and dialogue
    • Monologue versus monologicity: dialogue versus dialogicity
  • Monological tendencies in dialogue
  • Dialogical tendencies in soliloquies
  • Soliloquy
    • Soliloquies of action and reflection
  • Asides
    • The monological aside: convention versus motivation
    • The aside ad spectatores
    • The dialogical aside
  • Dialogical speech
    • Prescriptive versus descriptive poetics of dialogue
    • Duologue and polylogue
  • Frequency of interruption and speech length
  • Temporal relations: succession versus simultaneity
  • The relationship between dialogues
    • The syntagmatics of dialogue
  • The rhetoric of dialogue
    • Logos-Ethos-Pathos
  
  
• The structure of verbal communication and the musical structure
  • Introduction
  • Analyses
    • The Ballad of Sweeney Todd
    • The Worst Pies in London
    • Poor Thing
    • Pirelli's Miracle Elixir & The Contest
    • Kiss Me-sequence
    • Epiphany
    • Parlor Songs
  
  
• Conclusion
• Bibliography and Sources Used
• An overview of the musical numbers
• Sweeney Todd the Barber
• About this document ...