Books: Peter Pan? He grew up long ago... It's a brave writer who takes on J M Barrie. But the biggest problem, says Mark Bostridge, is not the curse laid down by the great man. It's the brilliance of an earlier biographer

The Independent on Sunday | June 19, 2005| | Copyright

J M Barrie once insisted that there was more in him than met the eye. The secret to his success as a dramatist " at one time five productions of his work played concurrently in the West End and he undoubtedly made more money from his writing than any of his contemporaries " was that his audience were enticed by his 'lightness of touch'. They were disarmed by a surface brilliance and conventional approach which allowed him to introduce more profound and complex themes at a deeper level.

This is certainly true of Barrie's most lasting creation, Peter Pan, which celebrated the centenary of its ...

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