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This paper investigates the dual endings of J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan with special attention to the one-act play When Wendy Grew Up: An Afterthought (1908), a text that has been largely marginalized in scholarship. Situating Barrie’s work within the framework of British stage censorship (1737-1967), this study contends that the repeated alteration of the ending—from the 1904 censored script to the 1904-1907 performance and finally to the 1908 afterthought—reveals Barrie’s evolving negotiation against institutional censorship proposing a reevaluation of this one-act play.

Through comparative analysis of the licensed manuscript, performance texts, and extant archival records, this study argues that the familiar theatrical ending —Wendy’s return home and Peter’s eternal youth—reflects not Barrie’s artistic intention but the constraints imposed by the licensing system. In contrast, the one-act play When Wendy Grew Up: An Afterthought (1908) restores elements removed from the 1904 licensed script, including critiques of middle-class domesticity, the fragility of educational ideals, and the gendered asymmetry that structures the labor of care.