A PENNY DREADFUL FOR YOUR THOUGHTS Murder will out, whether in police gazettes or chamber opera. If he hadn't existed, the still unknown Jack the Ripper could have been invented by penny dreadfuls, the Victorian tabloids that fed on fear and treated murder like a lark. At the same time melodramas trafficked in Grand Guignol […]
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:38PM on February 11, 2018