Barrie then adapted the play into the 1911 novel Peter and Wendy, often now published simply as Peter Pan. One night Peter is spotted and, while trying to escape, he loses his shadow. Nous avons aussi des informations sur les sorties en DVD et Blu-Ray. The best known of these are the 1953 animated feature film produced by Walt Disney featuring the voice of 15-year-old film actor Bobby Driscoll (one of the first male actors in the title role, which was traditionally played by women); the series of musical productions (and their televised presentations) starring Mary Martin, Sandy Duncan, and Cathy Rigby; and the 2003 live-action feature film directed by P. J. Hogan starring Jeremy Sumpter and Jason Isaacs. Pauline Chase took the role from the 1906–07 London season until 1914 while Zena Dare was Peter on tour during most of that period. He does not realise that he is still ticking as he boards the ship, where Hook cowers, mistaking him for the crocodile.


In 1929, Barrie gave the copyright to the works featuring Peter Pan to Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), Britain's leading children's hospital, and requested that the value of the gift should never be disclosed; this gift was confirmed in his will. Wendy's flirtatious 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). Wendy succeeds in re-attaching his shadow to him, and Peter learns that she knows many bedtime stories. In particular, Peter lacks the mental capacity for secondary mental representation and cannot recollect the past, anticipate the future, consider two things at once or see things from another person's point of view. It is hinted that Mary Darling knew Peter when she was a girl, because she is left slightly changed when Peter leaves. She offers to adopt Peter as well, but Peter refuses, afraid they will "catch him and make him a man." He invites her to Neverland to be a mother to his gang, the Lost Boys, children who were lost in Kensington Gardens. Barrie. Barrie's working titles for it included The Great White Father and Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Hated Mothers. Meanwhile, Wendy begins to fall in love with Peter and asks him what kind of feelings he has for her. Producer Charles Frohman disliked the title on the manuscript, in answer to which Barrie reportedly suggested The Boy Who Couldn't Grow Up; Frohman suggested changing it to Wouldn't and dropping The Great White Father as a title.[1]:105.
The play is now rarely performed in its original form on stage in the United Kingdom, whereas pantomime adaptations are frequently staged around Christmas. J. E. Somma sued GOSH to permit the U.S. publication of her sequel After the Rain, A New Adventure for Peter Pan.

Jeffrey Howard has noted its existential motifs, claiming that Peter Pan is a "precautionary tale for those who fear the responsibilities of living, and the uncertainties of dying," which explores concepts like the inevitability of death, freedom to create our lives, alienation, and the notion that existence lacks any obvious or inherent meaning.[17]. [1]:45–47, The character's name comes from two sources: Peter Llewelyn Davies, one of the boys, and Pan, the mischievous Greek god of the woodlands. According to Barrie's description of the Darlings' house,[4] the family lives in Bloomsbury, London. In 1929, Barrie gave the copyright of the Peter Pan works to Great Ormond Street Hospital, a children's hospital in London. [5][6], "Peter and Wendy, review: 'just what the doctor ordered, "Peter & Wendy: Stanley Tucci and Paloma Faith fly high in magical reimagining of children's classic", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter_and_Wendy_(film)&oldid=947577594, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 27 March 2020, at 04:29. Late in the night before her operation she reads a copy of Peter Pan and dreams she is Wendy and Peter Pan takes her to Neverland.[3]. The UK copyright originally expired at the end of 1987 (50 years after Barrie's death) but later revived in 1995 when legislation was changed following the directive to harmonise copyright laws within the EU, which extended the copyright term to 70 years after the author's death.