Peter Pan – the Original Play by J. M. Barrie - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

By J. M. Barrie

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• Release date: Jul 17, 2017
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J. M. Barrie

J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright. Born in Kirriemuir, Barrie was raised in a strict Calvinist family. At the age of six, he lost his brother David to an ice-skating accident, a tragedy which left his family devastated and led to a strengthening in Barrie’s relationship with his mother. At school, he developed a passion for reading and acting, forming a drama club with his friends in Glasgow. After graduating from the University of Edinburgh, he found work as a journalist for the Nottingham Journal while writing the stories that would become his first novels. The Little White Bird (1902), a blend of fairytale fiction and social commentary, was his first novel to feature the beloved character Peter Pan, who would take the lead in his 1904 play Peter Pan; or the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up, later adapted for a 1911 novel and immortalized in the 1953 Disney animated film. A friend of Robert Louis Stevenson, George Bernard Shaw, and H. G. Wells, Barrie is known for his relationship with the Llewelyn Davies family, whose young boys were the inspiration for his stories of Peter Pan’s adventures with Wendy, Tinker Bell, and the Lost Boys on the island of Neverland.

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The Complete Works of

J. M. BARRIE

VOLUME 25 OF 54

Peter Pan – the Original Play

Parts Edition

By Delphi Classics, 2013

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‘Peter Pan – the Original Play’

J. M. Barrie: Parts Edition (in 54 parts)

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J. M. BARRIE

IN 54 VOLUMES

Parts Edition Contents

The Novels

1, Auld Licht Idylls

2, Better Dead

3, When a Man’s Single

4, A Window in Thrums

5, The Little Minister

6, Sentimental Tommy

7, Tommy and Grizel

8, The Little White Bird

9, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

10, Peter and Wendy

The Novellas

11, A Tillyloss Scandal

12, Farewell Miss Julie Logan

The Short Story Collections

13, A Holiday in Bed and Other Sketches

14, Two of Them

15, Echoes of the War

The Plays

16, Ibsen’s Ghost

17, Walker, London

18, Jane Annie

19, The Professor’s Love Story

20, The Little Minister

21, The Wedding Guest

22, Quality Street

23, The Admirable Crichton

24, Little Mary

25, Peter Pan – the Original Play

26, Alice Sit-By-The-Fire

27, What Every Woman Knows

28, Old Friends

29, When Wendy Grew Up – an Afterthought

30, Pantaloon

31, The Twelve-Pound Look

32, Rosalind

33, The Will

34, Half an Hour

35, The New Word

36, A Kiss for Cinderella

37, Seven Women

38, Der Tag

39, The Old Lady Shows Her Medals

40, Dear Brutus

41, A Well-Remembered Voice

42, Mary Rose

43, Shall We Join the Ladies?

44, Barbara’s Wedding

45, The Boy David

The Non-Fiction

46, An Edinburgh Eleven

47, My Lady Nicotine

48, The Boy Castaways of Black Lake Island

49, Charles Frohman: A Tribute

50, Neither Dorking nor the Abbey

51, M’connachie and J. M. B.

52, Preface to the Young Visiters

The Memoirs

53, Margaret Ogilvy

54, The Greenwood Hat

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Peter Pan – the Original Play

THE BOY WHO WOULDN’T GROW UP

Barrie’s most famous work was originally written in the form of a stage play, which premiered in London on 27 December, 1904, with Nina Boucicault, daughter of playwright Dion Boucicault, in the title role. Due to its immediate commercial success, Barrie published several other works featuring Peter Pan, including a 1911 novelised account of the dramatic work. The play tells the immortal story of the mischievous boy that can fly and his adventures on the island of Neverland with Wendy Darling, her brothers, the fairy Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys and the infamous Captain Hook.

The story of Peter Pan was inspired by Barrie’s friendship with the sons of Arthur and Sylvia Llewelyn Davies. The Davies boys served as the inspiration for the characters of Peter Pan and the other boys, with several of the main characters being named after them.  Barrie became their guardian following the middle-age deaths of the parents, and they were publicly associated with Barrie and with Peter Pan for the rest of their lives. Originally, Barrie had created Peter Pan in stories he told to the sons, with whom he had forged a special relationship.

The character’s name comes from two sources: Peter Llewelyn Davies, one of the boys, and Pan, the mischievous Greek god of the woodlands. 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 fourteen deeply affected their mother. It is believed that she drew a measure of comfort from the notion that David, in dying a boy, would remain a boy for ever, in turn inspiring her son’s creation of the character Peter Pan.

Although the character appeared previously in Barrie’s novel The Little White Bird, the play Peter Pan contains the elements of the mythos that have since become most famous. The play opens with the portrayal of how Peter makes night-time calls on the Darlings’ house in Bloomsbury, listening in on Mrs. Mary Darling’s bedtime stories by the open window. One night Peter is spotted and, while trying to escape, he loses his shadow. On returning to claim it, Peter wakes Mary’s daughter, Wendy Darling. Wendy succeeds in re-attaching Peter’s shadow and he learns that she knows lots of bedtime stories. He invites her to Neverland to be a mother to his gang, the Lost Boys, children who were lost in Kensington Gardens. Wendy agrees, and her brothers John and Michael go along. Their magical flight to Neverland is followed by many adventures, including the saving of the Indian Princess Tiger Lily and battles with Captain Hook and his band of pirates.

A 1904 advertisement for the play at Duke of York’s Theatre, London

Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, the boys’ mother

The Davies boys with their father Arthur: Nico (in his arms), Jack, Peter, George, Michael (front, left to right)

Barrie playing Neverland with Michael Llewelyn Davies

CONTENTS

ACT I

ACT II

ACT III

ACT IV

ACT V. SCENE 1

ACT V. SCENE 2

Zena Dare as Peter, 1907

Disney’s famous 1953 animation film

The 1954 musical adaptation

The 2004 biographical film about Barrie’s relationship with the family that inspired him to create Peter Pan

The 2011 television series inspired by the Peter Pan mythos

TO THE FIVE

A DEDICATION

Some disquieting confessions must be made in printing at last the play of Peter Pan; among them this, that I have no recollection of having written it. Of that, however, anon. What I want to do first is to give Peter to the Five without whom he never would have existed. I hope, my dear sirs, that in memory of what we have been to each other you will accept this dedication with your friend’s love. The play of Peter is streaky with you still, though none may see this save ourselves.A score of Acts had to be left out, and you were in them all.We first brought Peter down, didn’t we, with a blunt-headed arrow in Kensington Gardens? I seem to remember that we believed we had killed him, though he was only winded, and that after a spasm of exultation in our prowess the more soft hearted among us wept and all of us thought of the police.There was not one of you who would not have sworn as an eye-witness to this occurrence; no doubt I was abetting, but you used to provide corroboration that was never given to you by me. As for myself, I suppose I always knew that I made Peter by rubbing the five of you violently together, as savages with two sticks produce a flame. That is all he is, the spark I got from you.

We had good sport of him before we clipped him small to make him fit the boards. Some of you were not born when the story began and yet were hefty figures before we saw that the game was up. Do you remember a garden at Burpham and the initiation there of No. 4 when he was six weeks old,and three of you grudged letting him in so young? Have you,No. 3, forgotten the white violets at the Cistercian abbey in which we cassocked our first fairies (all little friends of St.Benedict), or your cry to the Gods, ‘Do I just kill one pirate all the time?’ Do you remember Marooners’ Hut in the haunted groves of Waverley, and the St. Bernard dog in atiger’s mask who so frequently attacked you, and the literary record