Category: Plays/Films/Dramas

Pennsylvania Dutch Rip Van Winkle: A romantic drama in two acts

RIP VAN WINKLE A DUTCHMAN KNICKERBOCKER A SCHOOLMASTER DERRICK VAN SLAUS THE SQUIRE HERMAN VAN SLAUS HIS SON NICHOLAS VEDDER FRIEND TO RIP CLAUSIN FRIEND TO RIP RORY VAN CLUMP A LANDLORD GUSTAFFE A YOUNG MAN DAME VAN WINKLE RIP’S WIFE ALICE RIP’S SISTER LORRENNA RIP’S DAUGHTER...

Chapters

1. ACT I.--1763.

RIP VAN WINKLE A DUTCHMAN KNICKERBOCKER A SCHOOLMASTER DERRICK VAN SLAUS THE SQUIRE HERMAN VAN SLAUS HIS SON NICHOLAS VEDDER FRIEND TO RIP CLAUSIN FRIEND TO RIP RORY VAN CLUMP A...

2. ACT II.--After a lapse of twenty years supposed to occur between the

L. _Means First Entrance, Left._ R. _First Entrance, Right._ S. E. L. _Second Entrance, Left._ S. E. R. _Second Entrance, Right._ U. E. L. _Upper Entrance, Left._ U. E. R. _Uppe...

3. SCENE I--_A Village.--House, L. H. 3 E., with a sign of “GEORGE

_Vedd._ Sawg, du, Clausin, we’d uf ’m waig warsht, husht ebbas fun unserm freind Rip Van Winkle g’sana? Wo ebbas os we olter whiskey tzu hawa is bin ich goot derfore os ar sure...

4. SCENE II.--_A Plain Chamber in First Grooves.

_Derr._ Wann mer des ding now net glickt don bin ich g’ruineert. So gaits ame wann mer ’n sohn hut os tzu feel sowft! Ich hob ’m ols g’hulfa mit geld bis ich selwer tzu sawga ou...

5. SCENE III.--_RIP’S Cottage,--Door, L. 2 E.--Window in flat.--A closet in

_Knick._ Desmohl awer run ich ’n grosser risk--feel os wann ich umringt wær mit wilty creddoora. Awer, so weit gookts os wann olles recht wær. Wann yusht now de Alice um der wai...

6. SCENE IV.--_Half dark.--A front wood.--The report of a gun is

_Rip._ Wip-per-will! Es is mer maner bong os se der awram olt Rip noch wippa. (_Takes aim at bird--it flashes in the pan._) Widder ferfaild! Sull der deifel all de missa un miss...

7. SCENE V.--_Dark.--The Sleepy Hollow, in the bosom of the mountains

occupying the extreme extent of the stage,--stunted trees, fragments of rocks in various parts.--Moon in the horizon; the entrance to this wild recess being by an opening from t...

8. SCENE I.--_The last of the First Act repeated; but the distance now

presents a richly cultivated country.--The bramble is grown into a lofty tree, and all that remains of RIP’S gun is its rusty barrel, which is at the foot of the tree._

9. SCENE II.--_A well furnished apartment in the house of KNICKERBOCKER.

_Lor._ Yaw, ’s is hord. Ich hob kæ eltra g’hot sidder os ich ’n gons klæ maidly war. ’N gooty aunt hut for mich g’sorrickd un hut mer plenty fermaucht, awer now, olles os ich ho...

10. SCENE III.--_The town of RIP’S nativity, instead of the village as

presented in first scene of the drama:--It is now a populous and flourishing settlement.--On the spot where RORY’S tap house formerly stood, is a handsome hotel and the sign of...

11. SCENE IV.--_KNICKERBOCKER’S House as before.

_Herm._ Der Judge fun der Court is heit im shteddle, un ar is aw ready for des ding tzu decida in my favor according tzu der law--for de law is all uf miner side. Un d’no wann ’...