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Peter Pan Takes His First Bow

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Peter-Pan.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 12/27/2000 Peter Pan Transcript The play, Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up, opened at the Duke of York’s Theater in London on December 27, 1904. The author, James Barrie, was one of the most popular playwrights of the time, but this play was […]

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James M. Barrie

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/James-Barrie.mp3 Author Rita Smith with Fiona Barnes Air Date 5/8/2000 James M. Barrie Transcript James M. Barrie was born May 9, 1860. Donna R. White, writing in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, suggests that, “J. M. Barrie’s importance to children’s literature can be summed up in one name: Peter Pan.”(1) […]

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