"Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by the American author Washington Irving published in 1819, as well as the name of the story's fictional protagonist. Washington Irving (April 3 1783 – November 28 1859 was an American Author, essayist, biographer and historian of the early 19th The year 1819 in literature involved some significant events Events In England, Richard Carlile (1790-1843 is convicted of blasphemy Written while Irving was living in Birmingham, England, it was part of a collection of stories entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon. Birmingham ( ˈbɜːmɪŋəm Ber -ming-um England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon Gent, commonly referred to as The Sketch Book, is a collection of 34 essays and short stories written by Washington Although the story is set in New York's Catskill Mountains, Irving later admitted, "When I wrote the story, I had never been on the Catskills. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous The Catskill Mountains (also known as simply the Catskills) a natural area in New York State northwest of New York City and southwest of Albany "^[1]

Contents 1 Plot summary 2 Characters 3 Literary origins 4 Adaptations 5 Allusions 6 See also 7 References 8 External links 8.1 Sources 8.2 Other

Plot summary

The story of Rip Van Winkle is set in the years before and after the American Revolutionary War. In this article the inhabitants of the thirteen colonies that supported the American Revolution are primarily referred to as "Americans" with occasional references to "Patriots" Rip Van Winkle, a villager of Dutch descent, lives in a nice village at the foot of New York's Catskill Mountains. A Dutch American is an inhabitant of the United States of whole or partial Dutch ancestry An amiable man whose home and farm suffer from his lazy neglect, he is loved by all but his wife. One autumn day he escapes his nagging wife by wandering up the mountains. After encountering strangely dressed men, rumored to be the ghosts of Henry Hudson's crew, who are playing nine-pins, and after drinking some of their liquor, he settles down under a shady tree and falls asleep. Henry Hudson' (1570 &ndash 1611 was an English Sea explorer and Navigator in the early 17th century Skittles is an old European target sport, a variety of Bowling, from which Ten-pin bowling, Duckpin bowling, and Candlepin bowling He wakes up twenty years later and returns to his village. A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet, but smaller than a Town or City. He finds out that his wife is dead and his close friends have died in a war or gone somewhere else. He immediately gets into trouble when he hails himself a loyal subject of King George III, not knowing that in the meantime the American Revolution has taken place. George III (George William Frederick 4 June 1738 George III's long reign was marked by a series of military conflicts involving his kingdom much of the rest of Europe and places In this article the inhabitants of the thirteen colonies that supported the American Revolution are primarily referred to as "Americans" with occasional references to "Patriots" An old local recognizes him, however, and Rip's now grown daughter eventually puts him up. As Rip resumes his habit of idleness in the village, and his tale is solemnly believed by the old Dutch settlers, certain hen-pecked husbands especially wish they shared Rip's luck.

Characters

• Rip Van Winkle - a henpecked husband who loathes 'profitable labor'.
• Dame Van Winkle - Rip Van Winkle's cantankerous wife.
• Rip - Rip Van Winkle's son.
• Judith Gardenier - Rip Van Winkle's daughter.
• Derrick Van Bummel - the local schoolmaster and later a member of Congress. The United States Congress is the bicameral Legislature of the federal government of the United States of America, consisting of two houses
• Nicholas Vedder - landlord of the local inn.
• Mr. Doolittle - a hotel owner.

Literary origins

The story is a close adaptation of Peter Klaus the Goatherd by J. Peter Klaus, the German Prototype of Rip Van Winkle, was allegedly a Goatherd who slept for the same number of years and at the end had similar C. C. Nachtigal, which is a shorter story set in a German village.

It is also close to Karl Katz, a German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. The Brothers Grimm ( German: Die Gebrüder Grimm) Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, This story is almost identical. One difference is when he sees dwarfs playing a game of ninepins in a mountain meadow, he joins the game. DWARF is a widely used standardized Debugging data format. DWARF was originally designed along with ELF, although it is independent of Object file The dwarfs give him a magic drink that makes him fall asleep for one hundred years. ^[2] It is implied that the dwarfs are teaching him a lesson about laziness.

The story is also similar to the ancient Jewish story about Honi M'agel who falls asleep after asking a man why he is planting a carob tree which traditionally takes 70 years to mature, making it virtually impossible to ever benefit from the tree's fruit. Honi HaM'agel (חוני המעגל Khoni or Choni HaMe'agel, Hebrew for Honi the Circle-drawer) ( First century BCE) was a Jewish The Carob tree (from Arabic: خروب "kharūb" and Hebrew: חרוב Charuv) Ceratonia siliqua, is a Leguminous After this exchange, he falls aleep on the ground and is miraculously covered by a rock and remains out of sight for 70 years. When he awakens, he finds a fully mature tree and that he has a grandson. When nobody believes that he is Honi, he prays to God and God takes him from this world. Note also that the family name of Honi is also a term of geometry ('M'agel' is Hebrew for 'circle maker'), as well as the family name of Rip ('Winkel' is German for 'angle'). Geometry ( Greek γεωμετρία; geo = earth metria = measure is a part of Mathematics concerned with questions of size shape and relative position

The story is also similar to a 3rd century AD Chinese tale of Ranka, as retold in Lionel Giles in A Gallery of Chinese Immortals. China ( Wade-Giles ( Mandarin) Chung¹kuo² is a cultural region, an ancient Civilization, and depending on perspective a National Ranka or Lankeshan ji, or Rotten Battle Axe in English is a Chinese legend similar to that of Lionel Giles (born 29 December 1875 – died 1958 was Keeper of the Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts at the British Museum.

In Orkney there is a similar and ancient folklore tale linked to the Burial mound of Salt Knowe adjacent to the Ring of Brodgar. A drunken fiddler on his way home hears music from the mound. He finds a way in and finds the trowes (Trolls) having a party. He stays and plays for two hours, then makes his way home to Stenness, where he discovers fifty years have passed. The Orkney Rangers believe this may be one source for Washington Irving's tale, because his father was an Orcadian from the island of Shapinsay, and would almost certainly have often told his son the tale.

The original story was by Diogenes Laertius, an Epicurean philosopher circa early half third century, in his book On the Lives, Opinions, and Sayings of Famous Philosophers. Diogenes Laërtius ( Greek:, Diogénes Laértios) the biographer of the Greek Philosophers, is supposed by some to have received his surname The story is in Chapter ten in his section on the Seven Sages, who were the precursors to the first philosophers. The sage was Epimenides. Epimenides of Knossos ( Crete) (Greek) was a semi- mythical 6th century BC Greek seer and Philosopher - poet Apparently Epimenides went to sleep in a cave for fifty-seven years. But unfortunately, "he became old in as many days as he had slept years. " Although according to the different sources that Diogenes relates, Epimenides lived to be one hundred and fifty-seven years, two hundred and ninety-nine years, or one hundred and fifty-four years. ^[3]

A similar story is told of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, Christian saints who fall asleep in a cave while avoiding Roman persecution, and awake more than a century later to find that Christianity has become the religion of the Empire. The Roman Martyrology mentions the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus under the date of 27 July, as follows "Commemoration of the seven Holy Sleeper of

Adaptations

The story has been adapted for other media for the last two centuries, from stage plays to an operetta to cartoons to films. Rip Van Winkle is an Operetta in three acts by Robert Planquette. Actor Joseph Jefferson was most associated with the character on the 19th century stage and made a series of short films in 1896 recreating scenes from his stage adaptation, and which are collectively in the US National Film Registry. Joseph Jefferson ( February 20, 1829 – April 23, 1905) was an American actor The National Film Registry is the registry of Films selected by the United States National Film Preservation Board for preservation in the Library of Jefferson's son Thomas followed in his father's footsteps and also played the character in a number of early 20th century films. The story was also adapted for the show "Twilight Zone" in the 1961 episode "The Rip Van Winkle Caper" starring Oscar Beregi.

Allusions

David Bromberg's song "Kaatskill Serenade" tells the story of Rip Van Winkle from the first-person perspective. ^[4] The chorus is:

Where are the men that I used to sport with?

What has become of my beautiful town?

Wolf, my old friend, you don't even know me.

This must be the end; my house has tumbled down.

Lionel Richie's "Hello" makes reference to Rip Van Winkle in the opening scene of the video when Laura, a blind subject of Ritchie's affection and student of his, acts out a scene in which she describes the character Tony Billy Boy as "a regular Rip Van Winkle". Lionel Brockman Richie Jr (born June 20 1949 is an Academy Award and Grammy award-winning American Singer, Songwriter, Billy Boy, just out of prison, had suggested taking Laura on a date to the Brooklyn Paramount, not knowing that in the meantime it had closed, just as Eisenhower was no longer President. Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (October 14 1890 – March 28 1969 was President of the United States from 1953 until 1961 and a five-star general He was also mentioned in the Alabama song "Mountain Music" in 1982. Alabama is a Grammy Award -winning Country music band that originated in Fort Payne, Alabama, United States.

The Belle & Sebastian song "I Could Be Dreaming" features band member Isobel Campbell reading a passage from "Rip Van Winkle" towards the end of the song. Belle and Sebastian are an Indie pop band formed in Glasgow, Scotland in January 1996 Isobel Campbell (born on April 27, 1976 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish singer Cellist and composer in the

American composer Ferde Grofé tells the story of Rip Van Winkle through orchestral music in his Hudson River Suite (1955) — the third movement is entitled "Rip Van Winkle. Ferde Grofé ( March 27 1892 &ndash April 3 1972) was an American Pianist, arranger and Composer. "

Richard Dawkins' book Unweaving the Rainbow has a short reference to Rip Van Winkle:

The passengers, Rip van Winkles, wake stumbling into the light. Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL (born 26 March 1941 is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and Popular science Unweaving the Rainbow (subtitled "Science Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder" is a 1998 book by Richard Dawkins, discussing the relationship between After a million years of sleep, here is a whole new fertile globe, a lush planet of warm pastures, sparkling streams and waterfalls, a world bountiful with creatures, darting through alien green felicity. Our travellers walk entranced, stupefied, unable to believe their unaccustomed senses or their luck.

– ^[5]

Camp Chi, a Jewish faith summer camp in Lake Delton, Wisconsin, has an ongoing tradition where a version of Rip Van Winkle called Chi Winkle comes out from the woods each year at the session's end to wish the campers goodbye. His appearance is strikingly similar to that of the original Rip Van Winkle.

See also

• Rip Van Winkle (operetta)
• Rip Van Wink from The Beano
• Rip Van Winkle (Hellsing) from Hellsing

References

7. In Cowboy Bebop. episode 10, jet is being called a rip van winkle by an old friend

External links

Sources

• "Rip Van Winkle", illustrated by N. C. Wyeth (1921). Newell Convers Wyeth ( October 22, 1882 – October 19, 1945) known as N
• "Rip Van Winkle", illustrated by Arthur Rackham (1905). Arthur Rackham ( 19 September 1867 &ndash 6 September 1939) was a prolific English book illustrator
• "Rip Van Winkle", e-text from Bartleby.
• "Rip Van Winkle", audio version from 1946.
• "Rip Van Winkle", 1896 film.
• "Karl Katz", a comparison.

Other

• Rip Van Winkle Study Guide
• Irving in Birmingham

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