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Rip Van Winkle Jr. – Rip Van Winkle's ne'er-do-well son Judith Gardenier – Rip Van Winkle's married daughter; she takes her father in after he returns from his sleep. Derrick Van Bummel – The local schoolmaster who went on to serve in the American Revolution as a flag officer and later a member of Congress
"The Rip Van Winkle Caper" is episode 60 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone, and is the 24th episode of the second season. It originally aired on April 21, 1961 on CBS , and was written by series creator and showrunner Rod Serling , and was directed by Justus Addiss.
The story provides a Jewish version on the theme of a person or persons (as the Seven Sleepers) sleeping for many decades and waking to find a changed world—a theme originating in the story of Epimenides—found in many divergent cultures and traditions, and in modern times associated especially with the Rip Van Winkle story.
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The motifs A 571 [clarification needed] "Cultural hero asleep in mountain", and E 502, "The Sleeping Army" are similar and can occur in the same tale. [1] A related motif is the "Seven Sleepers" (D 1960.1, [2] also known as the "Rip Van Winkle" motif), whose type tale is the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus (AT tale type 766).
Along with Irving's companion piece "Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is among the earliest examples of American fiction with enduring popularity, especially during Halloween because of a character known as the Headless Horseman believed to be a Hessian soldier who was decapitated by a cannonball in battle. [1]
Fred Leslie as Rip Van Winkle, 1882. Rip Van Winkle is an operetta in three acts by Robert Planquette.The English language libretto by Henri Meilhac, Philippe Gille and Henry Brougham Farnie was based on the short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820) and "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) by Washington Irving after the play by Dion Boucicault and Joseph Jefferson.
Rip Van Winkle. Rip Van Winkle is a 1903 American short black-and-white silent compilation film written and directed by William K.L. Dickson.It is adapted from the play by his friend and investor Joseph Jefferson with Dion Boucicault based on the 1819 story of the same name by Washington Irving.