T‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‍‍‌‍‍he play Peter Pan (Barrie, 1995) contains elements of the f

T‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‍‍‌‍‍he play Peter Pan (Barrie, 1995) contains elements of the following genres: Christmas pantomime, fairy tale and adventure story. This question invites you first of all to identify features of these genres within Peter Pan. Thus, the first part of your essay should be concerned with demonstrating that you can identify the features of pantomime, fairy tale, and adventure story in the play. In the second part, you will need to consider how Peter Pan combines these genres, and to what effect. You might wish to explore how, by mixing these inherited modes together, Barrie produced something original; or to think about what else he seems to have put into the mix. Overall, this question asks you for a reading of Peter Pan that tries to account for its enduring power. A practical approach to the question would be to choose about three scenes from the play to exemplify elements of pantomime, fairy tale and adventure story. Pay close attention to the language, stage directions and setting. Don’t forget to support your points by quoting from the text, and, above al‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‍‍‌‍‍l, avoid summarising the plot. For clarity, refer to Peter Pan, the play, in italics and Peter Pan, the character, in normal type. You have already done some useful work on fairy tales and have also tackled Victorian adventure stories with reference to Treasure Island. However, please be careful not to replicate work from your previous TMAs in this essay. You will find some helpful material related to drama for children and Peter Pan in Approaches and Territories (Greenhalgh, especially p. 274–5), and a discussion of pantomime and Peter Pan in Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends (White and Tarr). On fairy tales and their history, return to Approaches and Territories for Zipes’s useful essay. On adventure stories and their meanings, you should return to Stevenson, Loxley, and Parkes in Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends. Most importantly this university only allows quotes from the critical essays and study gives that it gives, so all quotes have to come from this and the play itself. I have included the ones to help you in the Tutorial Notes Do‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‍‍‌‍‍cument.