![]() Also that year the famous book illustrator Arthur Rackham produced an illustrated edition of Peter in Kensington Gardens from Little White Bird as a stand alone book. ![]() For Christmas 1906 there was also production staged in Manchester starring Zena Dare. The play was so successful that is was revived annually, first with Cecilia Loftus as Peter and then for 8 years with Pauline Chase in the role. Although his was play and not a pantomime, Nina Boucicault, daughter of theatre impresario Dino, took the lead role of Peter, in the same way the lead male role in traditional British pantomime is performed by a woman. ![]() Then 1904 a children’s play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up was staged at the Duke of York’s Theatre on St Martin’s Lane. ![]() Not a children’s book but a title in which Peter Pan appears in one chapter, a book within a book, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, as a seven day old baby who flies away to join the fairies. ![]()
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