Captain James Hook is a fictional character, the main antagonist of J.
M. 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. The
character is a pirate captain of the brig Jolly Roger. 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. An iron hook replaced his severed hand, which
gave the pirate his name.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. 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. The character was originally cast to be
played by Dorothea Baird, the actress playing Mary Darling, but Gerald
du Maurier, already playing George Darling (and the brother of Sylvia
Llewelyn Davies), persuaded Barrie to let him take the additional role
instead, a casting tradition since replicated in many stage and film
productions of the Peter Pan story.According to A.N. Wilson, Barrie
"openly acknowledged Hook and his obsession with the crocodile was an
English version of Ahab", and there are other borrowings from
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