Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up

Disney's film adapts Barrie's play rather than the 1911 novel he later made from it, and the stage origin shows in what the film keeps: the nursery, the flight out of the window, the pirates, and the appeal to the audience about believing in fairies. The film's depiction of the Neverland Indians is the part now carrying a content warning on Disney's own platform, and it is an intensification of what the play does rather than an invention of the film.

The film takes its title and its idea from Barrie: the Lost Boys are boys who never grow up, and the vampire gang are that idea made literal, eternally young and eternally out at night. The original concept was a vampire version of Peter Pan's Lost Boys.

Peter Pan was first created as a play in 1904 before its writer decided to make a novel out of it, published in 1911 : Peter Pan and Wendy, sometimes found as just "Peter Pan"

Peter Pan first appears here, in chapters 13 to 18 of a novel written for adults, as a week-old infant who flies out of his nursery window and lives among the birds and fairies of Kensington Gardens. There is no Neverland, no Hook, no Darlings and no Wendy. The play takes the character and invents almost everything around him. Filed as an adaptation because the source is real and Barrie is adapting himself, but MEDIUM rather than HIGH because what gets adapted is a six-chapter episode rather than a book: the pirates, the Lost Boys and the crocodile are the play's own. The chain runs on from here. The play was novelized in 1911 as Peter and Wendy, which the graph already holds.

Barrie's pirates are Stevenson's pirates, and Barrie knew it. The two men corresponded, and Barrie later wrote that Hook was his attempt at the kind of villain Stevenson had made possible. The inheritance is concrete: Hook is described as having served as Long John Silver's boatswain, which makes the debt part of the text rather than a resemblance. Neverland's lagoon, the marooning, the pirate ship as a place children are taken to, and the crocodile as the thing that finally comes for the captain are all built on Treasure Island's furniture. Filed MEDIUM: an acknowledged formative influence.

Barrie admires Caroll's work. Both feature child protagonist entering a magical world where conventional rules no longer apply.