In 1929, Barrie gave the copyright of the Peter Pan works to Great Ormond Street Hospital, a children's hospital in London.īarrie created Peter Pan in stories he told to the sons of his friend Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, with whom he had forged a special relationship. In the U.S., the original version has also been supplanted in popularity by the 1954 musical version, which became popular on television. The play is now rarely performed in its original form on stage in the UK, whereas pantomime adaptations are frequently staged around Christmas. Since its original production, the story has been adapted as a pantomime, a stage musical, a television special, and several films, including a 1924 silent film, the 1953 Disney animated film, and a 2003 live action production. This version was later illustrated by Mabel Lucie Attwell in 1921. The novel was first abridged by May Byron in 1915, with Barrie's permission, and published under the title Peter Pan and Wendy, the first time this form was used.

Bedford (whose illustrations are still under copyright in the EU). The original book contains a frontispiece and 11 half-tone plates by the artist F. The novel was first published in 1911 by Hodder & Stoughton in the UK, and Charles Scribner's Sons in the US. This was also the first illustrated version of the story. Prior to the publication of Barrie's novel, the play was first adapted into the 1907 novelisation The Peter Pan Picture Book, written by Daniel O'Connor and illustrated by Alice B. Barrie continued to revise the play for years after its debut until publication of the play script in 1928, under the name Peter Pan or, The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up. It was later revived with such actresses as Marilyn Miller and Eva Le Gallienne. A Broadway production was mounted in 1905 starring Maude Adams. The play debuted at the Duke of York's Theatre in London on 27 December 1904 with Nina Boucicault, daughter of the playwright Dion Boucicault, in the title role. The story was inspired by Barrie's friendship with the Llewelyn Davies family. Other well known characters from the story include the fairy Tinker Bell and the pirate Captain Hook. Both tell the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous otherworldly little boy who can fly, and Wendy Darling and her brothers John and Michael, following their many adventures on an island called the Neverland inhabited by lost boys, pirates, American Indians, mermaids, fairies, and monsters. Barrie begun in 1904 and finalized in 1928 and Peter and Wendy, a 1911 novel by Barrie. Peter Pan is the name often applied to two closely related works: Peter Pan or, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a play by J.

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