Category: Plays/Films/Dramas
This is the history of the evolution of a play. Many hands were concerned in its growth, but its increase in scenic effect as well as in dialogue was a stage one, rather than prompted by literary fervour. No dramatization of Washington Irving’s immortal story has approached th...
This is the history of the evolution of a play. Many hands were concerned in its growth, but its increase in scenic effect as well as in dialogue was a stage one, rather than pr...
16. 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-h...
11. SCENE III.Zooks! I’m venturing into a tiger’s den in quest of a lamb. All’s clear, however; and, could I but pop on little Alice, how we would bill and coo. She comes! lie still, my flutt...
9. SCENE I.Neighbour Clausen, on your way hither, saw you anything of our friend, Rip Van Winkle? Where there’s a cup of good liquor to be shared, he’s sure to be on hand—a thirsty soul.
15. SCENE II.(143)Alas, what a fate is mine! Left an orphan at an early age,—a relation’s bounty made me rich, but, to-day, this fatal day—poverty again awaits me unless I bestow my hand without...
17. SCENE IV.Mr. Knickerbocker, if you please, my dear; damme! I’m so happy I could fly to the moon, jump over a steeple, dance a new fandango on stilts. [_Dances._] Fal, lal, la.
10. SCENE II.Should the present application fail, I am a ruined man; all my speculations will be frustrated, and my duplicity exposed; yes, the dissipation of my son must inevitably prove hi...
2. Act III.—Burke + Jefferson + ending suggested by Shakespeare’sBut, however the credit is distributed, Jefferson alone made the play as it lives in the memories of those who saw it. It grew by what it fed on, by accretions of rich imaginati...
14. 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 it...
12. SCENE IV.[Whip-poor-Will! egad, I think they’ll whip poor Rip.](109)—[ _Takes aim at bird; it flashes in the pan._]—Another miss! Oh, curse the misses and the missusses! hang me if I can...
13. SCENE V._Dark.—The Sleepy Hollow, in the bosom of the mountains, occupying the extreme extent of the stage—stunted trees, fragments of rock in various parts.—Moon in the horizon; __ the...
8. ACT II.—1783.—_A lapse of twenty years is supposed to occur betweenRIP VAN WINKLE Mr. Hackett Mr. F. S. Chanfrau (the dreamer) HERMAN VAN SLAUS " Warwick " Ferrell SETH SLOUGH " Whiting " Stephens KNICKERBOCKER " Norton " B.G. Rogers THE JUDGE...
3. ACT I. 1763_Original_ _Walnut St. _ _Philadelphia_ DEIDRICH VAN SLAUS Mr. Sanger Mr. Porter HERMAN (his Son) " N. Norton " Read KNICKERBOCKER (a " S. Beverley " J. Jefferson Schoolmaster)...
5. ACT I—1763 1857 1850RIP VAN WINKLE (a Mr. F. S. Chanfrau Mr. C. Burke Dutchman) KNICKERBOCKER (a " Whiting " J. L. Baker Schoolmaster) DERRIC VAN SLAUS " Ferdon " Marsh (the Burgomaster) HERMAN VAN...
7. ACT I—1763 1855 1857RIP VAN WINKLE (a Mr. Hackett Mr. F. S. Chanfrau Dutchman) KNICKERBOCKER (a " Norton " B. G. Rogers Schoolmaster) DERRIC VAN SLAUS " McDonall " Ross (the Burgomaster) HERMAN VAN...
6. ACT II.—1783.—_A lapse of twenty years is supposed to occur betweenRIP VAN WINKLE Mr. F. S. Chanfrau Mr. C. Burke (the dreamer) HERMAN VAN SLAUS " Blake " Henkins SETH SLOUGH " Denham " J. Jefferson KNICKERBOCKER " Whiting " J. L. Baker THE JUD...
4. Act II. 1783.HERMAN VAN SLAUS Mr. H. Norton Mr. Read SETH KILDERKIN —— —— KNICKERBOCKER " S. Beverley " J. Jefferson NICHOLAS VEDDER " T. Santer " Sefton GUSTAVE —— —— YOUNG RIP —— —— " Chap...