Peter Pan
Peter Pan is a
fictional character created by
Scottish novelist and playwright,
J. M. Barrie (
1860–
1937), as well as the title of a
stage play and
novel based on the character. A mischievous little boy who refuses to
grow up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood adventuring on the small island of
Neverland as leader of his gang, the Lost Boys.
J. M. Barrie wrote three works involving Peter Pan:
* The novel
The Little White Bird: Or Adventures in Kensington Gardens (
1902)
* The stage play
Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up (first performed Dec. 27,
1904); (first published version of play,
1928)
*
Peter and Wendy (
1911), later retitled
Peter Pan, a novel for children based on the play.
Several sequels, adaptations, and spinoffs have emerged since then, all with slightly modified storylines.
Peter and Wendy
Later renamed
Peter Pan.
This is the portion of J. M. Barrie's mythos of Peter Pan that is best known to most readers.
In both the play and the novel, Peter invites the girl Wendy Darling to the
Neverland to be a mother for his gang of Lost Boys. Her brothers John and Michael come along. Many adventures ensue,and a climactic confrontation with Peter's nemesis, the pirate
Captain Hook of the pirate ship the Jolly Roger. In the end, Wendy decides that her place is at home, and brings all the boys back to London. Peter remains in Neverland, and Wendy grows up.
In the novel, Barrie includes an additional scene which was not in the play, but which he created for the stage under the title
An Afterthought. In this scene, Peter returns to Wendy's house, not realizing that more than twenty years have passed since he took Wendy, John and Michael to Neverland, and that Wendy is now a married woman with a daughter, Jane. Confronted with the news, he breaks down and cries. Wendy leaves the room to try to think, and Peter's sobs awaken Jane, who asks him to take her with him to Neverland and to let her be his new mother. Peter joyfully accepts, and the two fly off together with Wendy sorrowfully looking off after them. Peter will now come for Jane once a year so that she will help him with his spring cleaning.
The additional scene is almost never used in the play or film versions, but it made a poignant conclusion to the famous production starring
Mary Martin, which was such a success on television.
Barrie created Peter Pan in stories he told to the sons of his friend
Sylvia Llewelyn-Davies, with whom he had forged a special relationship while both were married.
The character's name comes from two sources:
Peter Llewelyn-Davies, at the time the youngest of the boys, and
Pan, the mischievous
Greek god of the woodlands. Mrs. Llewelyn Davies' death from cancer came within a few years after the death of her husband. Barrie was named as co-guardian of the boys and unofficially adopted them.
It has also been suggested that the inspiration for the character was Barrie's elder brother David, whose death in a skating accident at the age of thirteen deeply affected their mother. According to Andrew Birkin, author of
J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys, the death was "a catastrophe beyond belief, and one from which she never fully recovered . . . If Margaret Ogilvy [Barrie's mother as the heroine of his
1896 novel of that title] drew a measure of comfort from the notion that David, in dying a boy, would remain a boy for ever, Barrie drew inspiration."
Peter Pan first appeared in print in a
1902 book called
The Little White Bird, a fictionalised version of Barrie's relationship with the Llewelyn Davies children, and was then used in a very successful
stage play,
Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, which premiered in
London on
December 27,
1904.
In
1906, the portion of
The Little White Bird which featured Peter Pan was published as the book
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, with illustrations by
Arthur Rackham. Barrie then adapted the play into the
1911 novel
Peter and Wendy (most often now published simply as
Peter Pan).
There are seven
statues of Peter Pan playing a set of pipes, cast from a mold by sculptor
George Frampton, following an original commission by Barrie. The statues are in
Kensington Gardens in
London, in
Liverpool, in
Brussels, in
Camden, New Jersey, in
Perth, in
Toronto, and in
Bowring Park in
St. John's, Newfoundland.
Barrie is sometimes said to have "invented" the name
Wendy with this story. He wanted to use an uncommon name for the girl, so his original name for the character of Wendy was "Mia Angela Carol Darling." The name Wendy came about because Barrie's friend, poet
William Henley, called Barrie "friend." Overhearing this word, Henley's 4-year-old daughter Margaret could only pronounce it as "My Fweiendy" or "Fwendy-Wendy".
In fact, the name was already in use in both the
United States and the
United Kingdom, but was extremely rare. The Peter Pan stories popularized the name, at first in the UK.
Wendy is related to the
Welsh name
Gwendolyn, and was used by Barrie at a time when Welsh names were making a resurgence in
England.
The most apparent thematic thread in the story concerns "growing up" (or not), with the character of Peter wanting to remain a child forever in order to avoid the responsibilities of
adulthood. "
Peter Pan syndrome" has become a psychiatric term named by Dr. Dan Kiley to describe an adult who is afraid of commitment and/or refuses to act his age. It is also sometimes used to positively describe an innocent, childlike approach to life.
Along with the theme of "growing up" is the theme of death and innocence. Barrie's tale is intricately tied to the real Llewelyn-Davies boys and the deaths of both their mother and father.
Peter and Wendy form a contrast between childhood and maturity. Peter Pan remains a child in mind because he cannot feel pain of death affecting him or those around him. Peter has one emotion only:
gladness, and occasionally to that he adds fury. He forgets soon after the fact anything that is not happy and lighthearted: "I always forget them after I kill them".
There is a slight romantic aspect to the story, which is sometimes played down, or omitted completely, in the movie adaptations. Wendy's flirtatious (by standards of the day) desire to kiss Peter, his desire for a mother figure, his conflicting feelings for
Wendy, Tiger Lily and
Tinker Bell (each representing different female archetypes), and the symbolism of his fight with
Captain Hook (traditionally played by the same actor as Wendy's father), all could possibly hint at a
Freudian interpretation (see
Oedipus Complex). Most "children's adaptations" of the play omit any romantic themes between Wendy and Peter, but Barrie's 1904 original, his 1911 novelization of it, and most musicals at least hint at the romantic elements.
Another theme, also mentioned in the 2004 film
Finding Neverland was made about Hook and the ticking crocodile. The statement was "We all have our own ticking crocodiles chasing us" This statement and the croc itself represent how we sometimes run away from time but it ultimately will catch up.
Peter Pan has been adapted for stage and screen many times. Following the example of Barrie's original stage version, Peter usually - but not always - has been played by an adult female. This is a convention of
Pantomime as the play was originally produced.
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Captain Hook fends off the crocodile in the first film version of Peter Pan |
Paramount Pictures released the first film version of
Peter Pan in
1924, a silent movie starring
Betty Bronson as Peter and
Ernest Torrence as Hook.
Several
musical versions of the play have been produced, of which the best known are
Leonard Bernstein's
1950 version, and, especially, the
1954 version mounted by
Jerome Robbins (originally to have only a few incidental songs with music by
Moose Charlap and lyrics by
Carolyn Leigh, but evolved into a full
Broadway show with additional music by
Jule Styne and lyrics by the team of
Betty Comden and
Adolph Green). The
1954 version became widely known as a vehicle for
Mary Martin and later for a series of female gymnasts, including
Cathy Rigby. The
1954 version was restaged for television by
NBC as part of its monthly high-quality dramatic series
Producers' Showcase and broadcast on
March 7,
1955 as a historic, live
color television event.
The production was so well received that
Producers' Showcase remounted a second live version on
January 9,
1956.
Mary Martin played TV's Peter Pan for the third time on
December 8,
1960 and it is this version, recorded on color
videotape that was repeated in
1963,
1966 and
1973. Subsequently it was presumed lost and not broadcast again until March of
1989. In the meantime, a new TV musical production was broadcast on
NBC's
Hallmark Hall of Fame on
December 12,
1976. It starred
Mia Farrow as Peter and
Danny Kaye as Captain Hook. Notably, it had a brand new score, with music and lyrics by
Anthony Newley and
Leslie Bricusse. The recorded voice of
Julie Andrews was also a part of the production, singing one of the numbers. However, it was a quick failure which remains forgotten today.
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Disney's Peter with the Lost Boys |
On
February 5,
1953,
Disney released its
animated film version of
Peter Pan with music by
Sammy Cahn, Frank Churchill,
Sammy Fain, and Ted Sears. 15-year-old film actor
Bobby Driscoll supplied the voice of Peter. In the film, a visual reference is made to Peter's ties to the
Pan of
Greek mythology by showing him absentmindedly playing the
Pan pipes (also called panflute), which the nature spirit was famous for playing.
The 1979 stage version, a revival of the 1954 musical version, starred
Broadway and television actress
Sandy Duncan. In 1989, Nippon Studios released an
anime version,
Piita Pan no Bouken, as part of its World Masterpiece Theater series. The first 23 episodes are a loose adaptation of Barrie's story, while the latter half of the series introduces a completely original arc with new supporting characters. Takashi Nakamura, chief animator of
Akira, did the character design for this project. The series adapts the story fairly well, even though the character designs are somewhat over the top (Peter for example, bears a striking resemblance to
One Piece's
Usopp and Tinker Bell's hairstyle has a somewhat punk-like appearance.) Most of
Piita Pan no Bouken voice actors are the same as the voice overs for the Disney film and they reappear for Kingdom Hearts and its sequel.
Also of note is the fact that Captain Hook's Voice actor, Chikao Ohtsuka, voiced Doctor Eggman in all his Sonic Adventure and Sonic X roles.
In 1990,
Fox Studios released the short-lived cartoon series
Peter Pan and the Pirates, about the daily adventures of Peter, Wendy, and the Lost Boys. Voice talents in the cast included
Jason Marsden as Peter and
Tim Curry as Captain Hook. Curry won an Emmy for his performance. The series is notable for drawing much of its characterization from the original book and play, particularly Captain Hook and his henchman Smee, so that they are not one-dimensional villains but complex, even ambiguous figures.
In 2000, the Cathy Rigby version, featuring almost all of the songs used in the 1954 version, was telecast by A&E on cable television. Both the Mary Martin and Cathy Rigby versions were eventually released on VHS and DVD, but the Mary Martin version has gone out of print. As of now no efforts are being made to reissue it.
P. J. Hogan's 2003 live-action film version
Peter Pan is notable for its directness in addressing the romantic elements between Peter (
Jeremy Sumpter) and Wendy.
Wendy was played by
Rachel Hurd-Wood and
Hook by
Jason Isaacs, who also plays the role of the Darling children's father.
There have been several additions to Peter Pan's story created, both authorised and not.
Prequels
In 1990, French artist
Regis Loisel began a series of comic books titled
Peter Pan, which constitute a bawdy, violent prequel to Barrie's work, and give Peter Pan's backstory a distinctly Dickensian flavor. The series consists of six volumes.
In October, 2001, R. Scott Leatherwood's
Neverland: the Early Adventures of Peter Pan was released. It attempted to answer seventeen questions about Peter's life before meeting the Darling children.
Hyperion Books (a subsidiary of Disney) published the 2004 book
Peter and the Starcatchers by humorist
Dave Barry and suspense writer
Ridley Pearson. It is an unofficial prequel to the story of Peter and Wendy, set on a ship called
Never Land. In 2005, the publisher announced plans by Disney to adapt the book as a digitally animated movie, and to publish a sequel to it entitled
Peter and the Shadow Thieves and a series of five
chapter books titled
The Never Land Adventures, the first two of which—
Escape from the Carnivale and
Cave of the Dark Wind—were last planned to be released in Fall 2006. 'Escape from the Carnivale' has been published, as has Peter and the Shadow Thieves.
In 2004, Karen Wallace's
Wendy hit the stands. Supposedly a prequel to the events in
Peter Pan, it is an attempt to justify the Darling children's willingness to fly away with Peter on the grounds that their home life, up to shortly before Peter appeared, had been filled with abuse and tragedy: a cruel nanny, a criminally irresponsible father, a suggestion of insanity in the family.
In 2005,
James V. Hart published the book
Capt. Hook by arrangement with Great Ormond Street Hospital. The book details the history of 15-year old James Matthew, young Oppidian Scholar and future Captain Hook. The book portrays the villainous youth in a sympathetic light.
Sequels
Gilbert Adair's novel
Peter Pan and the Only Children was published in 1987. It has Peter living with a new gang of Lost Boys under the ocean, recruiting children who fall from passing ships as new members.
Steven Spielberg's 1991
film Hook (Novelized by
Terry Brooks) has a grown-up Peter (played by
Robin Williams) lured back to Neverland by Tinker Bell (
Julia Roberts) to fight the returned Captain Hook (
Dustin Hoffman) who has kidnapped Peter's two young children. (
Robert DeNiro had been considered for the role of Captain Hook prior to the casting of Hoffman)
J.E. Somma published
After the Rain: A New Adventure for Peter Pan in 2001. It is set in modern times, and tells of Peter's reaction to a world that has grown to neglect him, and his rescue by three children who teach him that it's OK to grow up.
In 2002,
Disney released
Return to Neverland, a sequel to the 1953 Disney adaptation, in which Wendy's daughter Jane becomes involved with Peter Pan. This sequel is set during
the Blitz, and deals with the issue of children being forced to grow up too fast. The movie takes place during World War Two.
Peter Pan plays an important part as a background character in the
2002 novel
The League of Heroes by Xavier Maumejean. The story is set in an
alternate universe in which Neverland has materialized in Kensington Gardens. The
fairy folk are commonplace in London, as are pirates and Indians. Peter Pan is considered an enemy of the repressive government and is pursued by the League whose members include Lord Admiral Hook (
Captain Hook),
Sherlock Holmes, and Lord Greystoke (
Tarzan).
Another related series published by Disney Press was released in late 2005. The Disney Fairy series began with "Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg" by
Newbery award winning author
Gail Carson Levine. It introduces a new cast of Neverland fairies, one of whom is Tinker Bell. Peter Pan and Captain Hook are mentioned in the book, but play very minor roles. Additional books in the series are intended for younger readers, and were written by various authors, focusing on the different characters invented by Carson Levine.
Also in 2005, Great Ormond Street Hospital announced that
Geraldine McCaughrean had been chosen to write a hospital-authorised sequel to Barrie's novel. Her book is entitled '
Peter Pan in Scarlet' and will be published simultaneously in the UK, the US and around 30 other countries on October 5th 2006.
Very likely as a piggyback to the Mary Martin production, the
Overtones, a radio drama group consisting of Carol Beth and Rickey Rood and a small orchestra, recorded a 45rpm two-part adaptation of the Peter Pan story for
Cricket Records. The script and music were entirely original and were based on the book, not on the Disney film or the musical.
Kate Bush's 1978 album
Lionheart includes the song "In Search of Peter Pan".
In 1980,
Petula Clark starred in
Never Never Land as a woman whose niece, captivated by Barrie's tale, runs away and takes refuge with a group of "lost boys" squatting in a deserted London townhouse.
The 1987
Joel Schumacher film
The Lost Boys featured several teen actors as ageless vampires, loosely styled after the lost boys of
Peter Pan.
The 1994
Blues Traveler release
Four includes Peter Pan in the second verse of the song "Hook."
John Popper also ties the song title to Captain Hook in his transition to the chorus.
The 1997
comic book mini-series
The Lost by
Marc Andreyko and
Jay Geldhof starred a vampiric boy hustler named Peter who leads a small group of vampire boys, and lures a girl named Wendy to join them.
In the 1998 videogame
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, the
Kokiri are a race of children that live in a forest named after them, all possess fairies, wear green tunics, and never age. They do not show themselves to the outside world, as they believe they will die if they leave the forest.
In Aimee Mann's 1999 song "Save Me", Peter Pan was referenced in her lyrics.
In
The Jubilee's song "
The Little White Bird", it is referring to Wendy Darling from Peter Pan's perspective.
The 1990s animated series
The Mask included a character named "Skillet," who didn't age, dressed in green, could fly, and had a detachable shadow. However, he was a villain, and sent his shadow out to absorb the youth of other people. Skillet's name was presumably based on "pan" as a cooking utensil. It should be noted, however, that the character also borrows elements from
Superman villain Mr. Mxyzptlk as well.
Finding Neverland, a 2004 film starring
Johnny Depp as Barrie and
Kate Winslet as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, was a somewhat fictionalized account of their relationship and how it led to the development of
Peter Pan. It was based on the 1998 play
The Man Who Was Peter Pan by
Allan Knee.
The Disney version of Peter Pan also appeared in the 2002
video game Kingdom Hearts. In it, Captain Hook's ship intercepts the Gummi Ship, and Sora and his friends are taken aboard it, just as Peter Pan attempts to rescue Wendy. In
Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories Sora finds himself in a facsimilie of Captain Hook's ship. Peter is there to rescue Wendy, but initially abandons her when he hears that she wants to return to London, afraid that she will forget him. He, however, rescues Wendy when Captain Hook holds her hostage, and after Hook's defeat, Sora convinces him that Wendy will remember him. Peter Pan and Tinker Bell are also used in the 2006
video game "
Kingdom Hearts II", where they help Sora as a magical summon that you receive towards the end of the game. Also Peter Pan appears in the fan game: Kingdom Hearts:Inverted Hearts, in it Peter is a lot darker and has a dark green cloak. He is also very mysterious.
In 2003 New Media Entertainment released
Neverland, a modern punk version of the Peter Pan saga with homosexual undertones. It features
Wil Wheaton as John Darling.
New Line Cinema have greenlit a movie project entitled "Pan," which casts Peter in his most controversial role yet...that of a psychopathic killer stalked by a
John McClane-style Captain Hook in the present day.
Neverland Ranch is the former primary residence of
pop singer Michael Jackson. In the 2003 documentary
Living with Michael Jackson, Jackson responded to a question regarding his age with, "I am Peter Pan." At about the same time, the setting of one of Jackson's music videos resembled Neverland.
The 2004 album "
Marbles" and the 2006 album "
Blind Guardian" clearly references Peter Pan in their lyrics.
In Dreamworks' film
Shrek, Peter Pan is shown briefly while in line to sell Tinker Bell. His only line is the famous "He can fly!"
In the animated television show
The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Grim sees Peter Pan and calls him, "That kid in tights who sprinkles fairy dust on everything".
The 2006 webcomic
Cheshire Crossing, by
Andy Weir, features Wendy Darling, Dorothy Gale from
The Wizard of Oz, and Alice Liddell from
Alice in Wonderland as inmates in an institution intended to study how they can travel to fantasy worlds. They are placed under the supervision of governess
Mary Poppins.
The copyright status of Peter Pan varies from one jurisdiction to another, and is disputed in at least one of them. The question is complicated somewhat by the various versions in which the story has been published. For example, elements introduced in the earliest versions of the story by Barrie may be in
public domain in a given jurisdiction, but elements introduced in later editions or adaptations might not. For example, Disney holds the copyright for the character designs, songs, etc. introduced in the 1953 animated film, but not for the characters themselves.
European Union
Great Ormond Street Hospital (to which Barrie assigned the copyright as a gift before his death) claims full copyright in the
European Union until the end of
2007. In the 1990s, the term of copyrights was standardised throughout the EU (see
Directive on harmonising the term of copyright protection) to extend 70 years after the creator's death. Although
Peter Pan was considered
public domain in some jurisdictions at that time, this provision placed it back under copyright protection.
United Kingdom
The U.K. copyright for
Peter Pan originally expired at the end of 1987 (50 years after Barrie's death), but was reestablished through 2007 by the European Union directive. Additionally, in 1988 the government had enacted a perpetual extension of some of the rights to the work, entitling the hospital to royalties for any performance or publication of the work. This is not a true
perpetual copyright, however, as it does not grant the hospital creative control nor the right to refuse permission. Nor does it cover the Peter Pan sections of
The Little White Bird, which pre-dates the play. The exact phrasing is in section 301 of, and Schedule 6 to, the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988:
301. The provisions of Schedule 6 have effect for conferring on trustees for the benefit of the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London, a right to a royalty in respect of the public performance, commercial publication, broadcasting or inclusion in a cable programme service of the play 'Peter Pan' by Sir James Matthew Barrie, or of any adaptation of that work, notwithstanding that copyright in the work expired on 31 December 1987. ... 1.â€"(1) In this Scheduleâ€"
"the Hospital" means The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London,"the trustees" means the special trustees appointed for the Hospital under the National Health Service Act 1977; and"the work" means the play "Peter Pan" by Sir James Matthew Barrie.... 2.â€"(1) The trustees are entitled, subject to the following provisions of this Schedule, to a royalty in respect of any public performance, commercial publication, broadcasting or inclusion in a cable programme service of the whole or any substantial part of the work or an adaptation of it.
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United States
The conversion of U.S. copyright terms from a fixed number of years following publication, to an extending number of years following the creator's death, has introduced confusion over Peter Pan's copyright status. Great Ormond Street Hospital claims that
U.S. legislation effective in 1978 and
again in 1998 extended their copyright until 2023. Their claim is based on the copyright for the play script for Peter Pan, which was not published until 1928. By then, the character of Peter Pan had appeared in three previously published books, the copyrights of which have since expired.
GOSH's claim is contested by various parties, including Disney, who had cooperated with the hospital previously, but in 2004 published Dave Barry's and Ridley Pearson's
Peter and the Starcatchers without permission or royalty payments. The Library of Congress catalog states that the original edition of
Peter and Wendy was published in 1911, and Disney asserts that that material, like any other work published before 1923, was already in the public domain at the time of these extensions, and was therefore ineligible to be extended.
A dispute between the hospital and writer J.E. Somma over the U.S. publication of her sequel
After the Rain, was settled out of court in March 2005. GOSH and Somma issued a joint statement which characterized her novel as "
fair use" of the hospital's "U.S. intellectual property rights". Their confidential settlement does not set any legal precedent, however. [
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Other jurisdictions
The original versions of Peter Pan are in the public domain in
Australia and in
Canada (where Somma's book was first published without incident).
Like many other works of
fiction from the era (such as the works of
Rudyard Kipling and
Mark Twain), the
Peter Pan canon contains much material which may be construed as offensive to modern audiences, though it was likely not intended to be offensive or considered inappropriate at the time.
Specifically, the books have been accused of both
racism and
sexism. The former charge primarily concerns the portrayal of
Native Americans in
Peter And Wendy - the portrayal is highly stereotypical, with Native Americans being shown as warlike primitives who speak in guttural tones. Barrie's treatment of female characters has also been criticized by modern readers - most of the female characters in
Peter And Wendy (Wendy, Tinker Bell, Tiger Lily, and the mermaids) fawn after Peter Pan (and Tinker Bell makes several attempts on Wendy's life, out of jealousy), yet Peter ignores all of their affections.
This criticism is also leveled against several more recent adaptations of the story, most notably the 1953 animated
Disney film which contains a song often criticized as offensive, "What Makes The Red Man Red?", a catalog of Native American stereotypes. Until the 2002 release of the DVD version of this film (which included all of the allegedly offensive content, uncensored), it was widely speculated that Disney's
Peter Pan would meet the same fate as the film version of
Song of the South, which has heretofore been withheld (by Disney) from the
United States market on the grounds that it deals with too sensitive of an issue.
Many authors of recent adaptations of
Peter Pan (as well as virtually all of the modern'sequels') have chosen to soften (or eliminate altogether) the harsh portrayal of Native Americans. The
2003 film version directed by
P. J. Hogan has been noted for going to the opposite extreme; several reviewers have criticized it for being excessively
politically correct. The Disney animated sequel,
Return to Neverland, features a heroine (Wendy's daughter, Jane) who, rather than being a passive 'damsel in distress', is fully capable of defending herself (and saving Peter from the clutches of Captain Hook). It should also be noted that in this sequel, no Native Americans are actually seen, but only alluded to in a scene where, flying over Neverland, Jane sees a teepee with smoke rising out of it.
Alan Moore's graphic novel
Lost Girls, set to be released in collected form in July 2006, is also controversial, setting Wendy Darling alongside (L. Frank Baum's) Dorothy Gale from
The Wizard Of Oz and (Lewis Carroll's) Alice Liddell from
Alice In Wonderland in 1913, telling each other stories of erotica.
Wendy, Alice and Dorothy were also portrayed alongside (C.S. Lewis') Susan Pevensie from
The Chronicles Of Narnia in the non-controversial comic
The Oz/Wonderland Chronicles.
*
Randy Constan*
Peter Pan syndrome*
Finding Neverland, semi-fictional film about Barrie as he wrote
Peter Pan (2004)
*
Hook (film)*
Peter Pan (film)* Barrie, James Matthew and Scott Gustafson (illustrator).
Peter Pan: The Complete and Unabridged Text, Viking Press, October 1991. (ISBN 0670841803).
* Birkin, Andrew.
J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys.
*
Free ebook of Peter Pan at
Project Gutenberg (
Note: Project Gutenberg claims a copyright "to assist in the preservation of this edition in proper usage". It is only to be distributed in the
United States).
*People's memories of the
Peter Pan statue*
The Victorian Web: Frampton's Peter Pan statue*
The Adventures of Peter Pan (electronic text)*
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Theatre Cedar Rapids Peter Pan Photo Gallery*
Review of 2003 film version*
Common Sense Media review of the 1953 film (2002 DVD release)
