Later, Barrie expanded the scene, on the premise that children were fascinated by pirates, and expanded the role of the captain as the play developed. Hook did not appear in early drafts of the play, wherein the capricious and coercive Peter Pan was closest to a "villain", but was created for a front-cloth scene (a cloth flown well downstage in front of which short scenes are played while big scene changes are "silently" carried out upstage ) depicting the children's journey home. An iron hook replaced his severed hand, which gave the pirate his name. His two principal fears are the sight of his own blood (supposedly an unnatural colour) and the crocodile who pursues him after eating the hand cut off by Pan. The character is a pirate captain of the brig Jolly Roger. Barrie's 1904 play Peter Pan or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up and its various adaptations, in which he is Peter Pan's archenemy. Gerald du Maurier (1904 first stage production)Ĭaptain James Hook is a fictional character and the main antagonist of J. 1912 illustration by Francis Donkin Bedford
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