![]() ![]() Stage versions of the tale International versions The story of Rip has been translated and adapted in numerous ways since. Van Winkle (Baltimore, Boston, New York, and Philadelphia). Irving's version was first published as one of the stories in the first volume of Irving's book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent on June 23, 1819, published by Cornelius S. Having had something to drink with them, he falls asleep and wakes back up after twenty years. While there are a number of similar sotries in the canon of Europaean folklore, myth and literature, Irving's tale is widely thought to have been partly based on Johann Karl Christoph Nachtigal's German folktale "Peter Klaus ", set in a German village, in which a goatherd goes looking for a lost goat and finds some men drinking in the woods. It tells the story of Dutch-American villager in colonial America who falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains and wakes up 20 years later, having missed the American Revolution. "Rip Van Winkle" is the title of a short story by the American author Washington Irving (1783-1859). 2.3 Productions of Rip van Winkle in South Africa. ![]()
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