Peter Pan – Contexts

The Paradise of Peter Pan, print of painting by Edward Mason Eggleston, 1934. Published as a calendar print by the Thomas D. Murphy Company of Red Oak, Iowa, courtesy of WikiMedia Commons.

J.M. Barrie drew on the tradition of Pantomime performance that continues to this day. Watch this brief clip from the Belgrade Theatre located in Coventry, England to learn a bit about this type of performance.


This interview with Robert Douglas-Fairhurst touches on many topics related to J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan in its various facets.

How does this context make you reconsider elements of the play or novel? (optional – but we will be discussing it in class, so it might be a good idea to jot some ideas down.)

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