JACK THE RIPPER

JACK THE RIPPER

• 1824 Confessions of a Justified Sinner novel (James Hogg)• 1837-8 ‘Spring-Heeled Jack’ urban legend• 1876 L’uomo 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)

» (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)

JACK THE RIPPER IN EUROPEAN CINEMA

GERMANY

1902 Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora’s 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

Der Dirnenmörderer von London

• subject: English

• production company: German

• director: Spanish

• star: German

• location: Switzerland

• mode– Eurotrash + heritage cinema

UK

class

It is the class question rather than the sex question that is at issue in this matter.

The Star 4th October 1888