@article{ART003373044},
author={JUN, JOON-TAEK},
title={From Peter Pan to Peter and Wendy: The Novelistic Reworking of the Stage Play and the One-Act Afterpiece},
journal={Journal of Modern English Drama},
issn={1226-3397},
year={2026},
volume={39},
number={2},
pages={143-166}
TY - JOUR
AU - JUN, JOON-TAEK
TI - From Peter Pan to Peter and Wendy: The Novelistic Reworking of the Stage Play and the One-Act Afterpiece
JO - Journal of Modern English Drama
PY - 2026
VL - 39
IS - 2
PB - 한국현대영미드라마학회
SP - 143
EP - 166
SN - 1226-3397
AB - This article examines why J. M. Barrie transformed the stage play Peter Pan (1904) and the one-act afterpiece When Wendy Grew Up: An Afterthought, performed once in 1908, into the novel Peter and Wendy (1911). Arguing that the novel marks a distinct stage in Barrie’s creative development rather than a prose adaptation, it situates this transformation within late Edwardian debates over theatrical censorship.
Peter and Wendy reworks the two sources in differentiated sections: Chapters 1-16 derive from the performance version of Peter Pan, while Chapter 17 incorporates When Wendy Grew Up. The change is not simply an increase in narrative detail; Barrie redistributes the characters across different temporal trajectories. In Chapters 1-16, Hook’s stage obsession with fame and ambition is recast through an Eton-coded public-school past and “good form.” Chapter 17 turns the stage adoption and the afterpiece’s glimpse of adulthood into the Lost Boys’ social future, Wendy’s voluntary growth, and the Wendy-Jane-Margaret succession. Hook acquires an institutional past, the Lost Boys a social future, and Wendy a generational future, while Peter remains outside socialization and historical time.
The novel thus shifts its narrative centre from Peter alone to the relation between change and changelessness. Peter refuses growth and memory, yet his eternal childhood survives only because Wendy grows, remembers, and transmits his story to successive generations. By reorganizing rather than merely expanding its theatrical sources, Peter and Wendy makes Peter’s timelessness dependent on the generational change he refuses.
KW - J. M. Barrie;Peter Pan;When Wendy Grew Up: An Afterthought;Peter and Wendy;creative process;narrative reconstruction
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JUN, JOON-TAEK. (2026). From Peter Pan to Peter and Wendy: The Novelistic Reworking of the Stage Play and the One-Act Afterpiece. Journal of Modern English Drama, 39(2), 143-166.
JUN, JOON-TAEK. 2026, "From Peter Pan to Peter and Wendy: The Novelistic Reworking of the Stage Play and the One-Act Afterpiece", Journal of Modern English Drama, vol.39, no.2 pp.143-166.
JUN, JOON-TAEK "From Peter Pan to Peter and Wendy: The Novelistic Reworking of the Stage Play and the One-Act Afterpiece" Journal of Modern English Drama 39.2 pp.143-166 (2026) : 143.
JUN, JOON-TAEK. From Peter Pan to Peter and Wendy: The Novelistic Reworking of the Stage Play and the One-Act Afterpiece. 2026; 39(2), 143-166.
JUN, JOON-TAEK. "From Peter Pan to Peter and Wendy: The Novelistic Reworking of the Stage Play and the One-Act Afterpiece" Journal of Modern English Drama 39, no.2 (2026) : 143-166.
JUN, JOON-TAEK. From Peter Pan to Peter and Wendy: The Novelistic Reworking of the Stage Play and the One-Act Afterpiece. Journal of Modern English Drama, 39(2), 143-166.
JUN, JOON-TAEK. From Peter Pan to Peter and Wendy: The Novelistic Reworking of the Stage Play and the One-Act Afterpiece. Journal of Modern English Drama. 2026; 39(2) 143-166.
JUN, JOON-TAEK. From Peter Pan to Peter and Wendy: The Novelistic Reworking of the Stage Play and the One-Act Afterpiece. 2026; 39(2), 143-166.
JUN, JOON-TAEK. "From Peter Pan to Peter and Wendy: The Novelistic Reworking of the Stage Play and the One-Act Afterpiece" Journal of Modern English Drama 39, no.2 (2026) : 143-166.
