@article{ART003282719},
author={JUN, JOON-TAEK},
title={The Background to the Dual Endings of Peter Pan: Reconsidering When Wendy Grew Up},
journal={Journal of Modern English Drama},
issn={1226-3397},
year={2025},
volume={38},
number={3},
pages={77-97}
TY - JOUR
AU - JUN, JOON-TAEK
TI - The Background to the Dual Endings of Peter Pan: Reconsidering When Wendy Grew Up
JO - Journal of Modern English Drama
PY - 2025
VL - 38
IS - 3
PB - 한국현대영미드라마학회
SP - 77
EP - 97
SN - 1226-3397
AB - This paper investigates the dual endings of J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan with special attention to the one-act play When Wendy Grew Up: An Afterthought (1908), a text that has been largely marginalized in scholarship. Situating Barrie’s work within the framework of British stage censorship (1737-1967), this study contends that the repeated alteration of the ending—from the 1904 censored script to the 1904-1907 performance and finally to the 1908 afterthought—reveals Barrie’s evolving negotiation against institutional censorship proposing a reevaluation of this one-act play.
Through comparative analysis of the licensed manuscript, performance texts, and extant archival records, this study argues that the familiar theatrical ending —Wendy’s return home and Peter’s eternal youth—reflects not Barrie’s artistic intention but the constraints imposed by the licensing system. In contrast, the one-act play When Wendy Grew Up: An Afterthought (1908) restores elements removed from the 1904 licensed script, including critiques of middle-class domesticity, the fragility of educational ideals, and the gendered asymmetry that structures the labor of care.
KW - Peter Pan;J. M. Barrie;Censorship;Lord Chamberlain’s Copy;;When Wendy Grew Up
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JUN, JOON-TAEK. (2025). The Background to the Dual Endings of Peter Pan: Reconsidering When Wendy Grew Up. Journal of Modern English Drama, 38(3), 77-97.
JUN, JOON-TAEK. 2025, "The Background to the Dual Endings of Peter Pan: Reconsidering When Wendy Grew Up", Journal of Modern English Drama, vol.38, no.3 pp.77-97.
JUN, JOON-TAEK "The Background to the Dual Endings of Peter Pan: Reconsidering When Wendy Grew Up" Journal of Modern English Drama 38.3 pp.77-97 (2025) : 77.
JUN, JOON-TAEK. The Background to the Dual Endings of Peter Pan: Reconsidering When Wendy Grew Up. 2025; 38(3), 77-97.
JUN, JOON-TAEK. "The Background to the Dual Endings of Peter Pan: Reconsidering When Wendy Grew Up" Journal of Modern English Drama 38, no.3 (2025) : 77-97.
JUN, JOON-TAEK. The Background to the Dual Endings of Peter Pan: Reconsidering When Wendy Grew Up. Journal of Modern English Drama, 38(3), 77-97.
JUN, JOON-TAEK. The Background to the Dual Endings of Peter Pan: Reconsidering When Wendy Grew Up. Journal of Modern English Drama. 2025; 38(3) 77-97.
JUN, JOON-TAEK. The Background to the Dual Endings of Peter Pan: Reconsidering When Wendy Grew Up. 2025; 38(3), 77-97.
JUN, JOON-TAEK. "The Background to the Dual Endings of Peter Pan: Reconsidering When Wendy Grew Up" Journal of Modern English Drama 38, no.3 (2025) : 77-97.
