A character in Peter Pan: [Peter and Wendy]

Captain James Hook

Name: Peter Pan: [Peter and Wendy]
Author: Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

Peter Pan: [Peter and Wendy] by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

The primary antagonist and a fearsome pirate captain who seeks to defeat Peter Pan.

Also known as: Hook, the pirate, the Captain

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Inside the story

Meet Captain James Hook

Captain James Hook is a fearsome pirate captain in Neverland and the chief enemy of Peter Pan. He is determined to defeat Peter, while maintaining strict standards of etiquette and trying to conceal his deep fear of the crocodile.

On the page

A tall, cadaverous pirate captain in his fifties with long black ringlets, a sallow face, deep-set forget-me-not blue eyes and an elaborate seventeenth-century crimson coat with lace at the cuffs. An iron hook replaces his right hand. Adult, saturnine, immaculately dressed.