JACK THE RIPPER

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JACK THE RIPPER
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• 1824 Confessions of a Justified Sinner novel
  (James Hogg)
• 1837-8 Spring-Heeled Jack urban legend
• 1876 Luomo delinquente Cesare Lombroso
• 1885 Psychopathia Sexualis (2nd edition) Richard
  von Krafft-Ebbing)
• 1886 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
  novella (Robert Louis Stevenson)
• 1887-8 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde play (Thomas Russell
  Sullivan)
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  (New York 1887, London 1888)
• 1888 the Whitechapel Murders
• 1888 A Study in Scarlet Sherlock Holmes /
  Conan Doyle
• 1891 The Picture of Dorian Gray novel (Oscar
  Wilde)
• 1895 Erdgeist play (Franz Wedekind)
• 1897 Dracula novel (Bram Stoker)
• 1900 The Interpretation of Dreams scientific
  study (Sigmund Freud)
• 1902 Die Büchse der Pandora play (Franz Wedekind)

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JACK THE RIPPER IN EUROPEAN CINEMA
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GERMANY

• 1902 Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandoras Box) play
  (Franz Wedekind)
• 1924 Das Wachsfigurenkabinett film
• 1928 Die Büchse der Pandora film
• 1937 Lulu opera (Alban Berg)
• 1962 Lulu film
• 1963 Das Phantom von Soho film
• 1964 Das Ungeheuer von London City film
• 1976 Der Dirnenmorder von London (Jack the
  Ripper) film

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Der Dirnenmörderer von London

• subject English
• production company German
• director Spanish
• star German
• location Switzerland
• mode
• Eurotrash heritage cinema

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UK
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class

• It is the class question rather than the sex
  question that is at issue in this matter.
• The Star 4th October 1888

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