Which school did Captain Hook of J. M. Barrie’s play, “Peter Pan”, supposedly attend?
“Peter Pan” or, “The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up” or “Peter and Wendy”, often known simply as “Peter Pan”, is a work by J. M. Barrie, in the form of a 1904 play and a 1911 novel.
The Peter Pan character first appeared in print in the 1902 novel “The Little White Bird”, written for adults. The character was next used in the stage play “Peter Pan”, or “The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up”, which premiered in London on 27 December 1904 and became an instant success. In 1906, the chapters of “The Little White Bird”, which featured Peter Pan, was published as the book “Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens”, with illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Barrie then adapted the play into the 1911 novel “Peter and Wendy”, often now published simply as "Peter Pan".
Captain James Hook is Peter Pan's archenemy and is a pirate captain of the brig "Jolly Roger". Hook was not the true name of the pirate but was the name given for the hook that replaced his severed right hand. In the play, it is implied that Hook attended Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford and his final words are "Floreat Etona" (“Let Eton Flourish”), Eton's unofficial motto. In the novel, Hook's last words are a similarly upper-class "bad form", in disapproval of the way Peter Pan beats him by throwing him overboard. Barrie revealed in his speech, “Captain Hook at Eton,” which he delivered to Eton pupils in 1927, that while Hook is callous and bloodthirsty these qualities make him a magnificent pirate and "not wholly unheroic".
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