Editing Captain Hook (section)

===''Peter Pan'' (play) and ''Peter and Wendy'' (novel)===
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[[File:Robb Harwood as Capt Hook (1907-09).jpg|160px|thumb|right|Robb Harwood as Captain Hook (1907–1909)]]
Hook is described as "cadaverous" and "blackavised", with "eyes which were of the blue of the [[forget-me-not]]" ("save when he was plunging his hook into you, at which time two red spots appeared in them and lit them up horribly") and long dark curls resembling "black candles". He is a very skilled [[swordsman]]. In many [[pantomime]] performances of ''Peter Pan'', Hook's hair is a wig and is accompanied by thick bushy eyebrows and moustache. The hook is fixed to his right hand (often changed to the left hand in film adaptations) and is used as a weapon. He is also described as having a "handsome countenance" and an "elegance of ... diction"&nbsp;– "even when he [is] swearing". Barrie describes "an attire associated with the name of [[Charles II of England|Charles II]], having heard it said in some earlier period of his career that he bore a strange resemblance to the ill-fated Stuarts". Hook's cigar holder enables him to smoke two cigars at once. Barrie also stated in "Captain Hook at Eton" that he was, "in a word, the handsomest man I have ever seen, though, at the same time, perhaps slightly disgusting". Although Hook is callous and bloodthirsty, it makes it clear that these qualities make him a magnificent pirate and "not wholly unheroic".
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