Mary Martin as Peter Pan
For many years, it has been the tradition that the role of Peter Pan onstage has been played by a woman. This is Mary Martin as Peter Pan from the 1956 presentation of the play from NBC's Producers' Showcase television program. Public domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons
Finding Neverland
J. M. Barrie, Creator of Peter Pan.
Public domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons
Streaming audio for 75,000+ tracks of classical, jazz, and world music, Naxos also includes opera summaries, librettos, and other text resources related to the study of music. (note: 10 users may access Naxos simultaneously).Welcome to this research guide designed to quickly connect Duquesne University students to all materials available through the Gumberg Library on Peter Pan, all the literary and theatrical works and films about this character and about J. M. Barrie, his creator. The page will provide links to reference works, great for getting background and basic facts about a topic, all editions of Peter Pan at the Gumberg Library, books of literary criticism, and articles from literary and communications journals. You will also find videos of well-known Peter Pan performances, as well as selected Internet sources. Information on citation and how to get materials from other libraries is also included.
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All of these resources can be accessed from off-campus, but you will need to enter your Multipass username and password in order to use them.
Information on Peter Pan will be found in these reference works by searching for "J. M. Barrie" rather than "Peter Pan."
Click the link below to read the article "Peter Pan Films" from the Greenwoood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales.
Click a link below to find all citations dealing with "Peter Pan" in selected literary, education, and communications databases. All of these resources can be accessed from off-campus, but you will need to enter your Multipass username and password in order to use them.
There is a concept in Jungian psychology called the puer aeternus ("eternal boy"), of which Peter Pan is an example. Click the link below to see all articles on this concept from the best psychology databas.
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The Annotated Peter Pan by 
Peter Pan by Click on the title of a book below to see if the book is available to be taken out of the library.
Barrie, Hook, and Peter Pan by 
Peter Pan's Shadows in the Literary Imagination by 
Second Star to the Right: Peter Pan in the Popular Imagination by 
J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan in and Out of Time by 
Now or Neverland by 
The Case of Peter Pan, or the Impossibility of Children's Fiction by Click on the title of a book below to see if the book is available to be taken out of the library.
J. M. Barrie and the Lost Boys by Click a link below to see all books in Quicksearch, the online catalog, on that subject. To learn how to find Gumberg Library EBooks, click here.
