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{{Infobox short story|author=Washington Irving|language=English|published_in=''[[The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.]]''|pub_date=1819|image=Depiction of Rip Van Winkle by John Quidor (1829).jpg|caption=Depiction of Rip Van Winkle by [[John Quidor]] (1829). Housed at [[Art Institute of Chicago]].|genre=Short story |wikisource= Rip Van Winkle (Irving)}}
"'''Rip Van Winkle'''" ({{IPA|nl|ˈrɪp fɑŋ ˈʋɪŋkəl}})  is a short story by the American author [[Washington Irving]], first published in 1819. It follows a [[Dutch-American]] villager in [[Colonial history of the United States|colonial America]] named Rip Van Winkle who meets mysterious Dutchmen, imbibes their strong liquor and falls deeply asleep in the [[Catskill Mountains]]. He awakes 20 years later to a very changed world, having missed the [[American Revolution]].

Inspired by a conversation on [[nostalgia]] with his American expatriate brother-in-law, Irving wrote the story while temporarily living in [[Birmingham]], England. It was published in his collection, ''[[The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.]]'' While the story is set in New York's Catskill Mountains near where Irving later took up residence, he admitted, "When I wrote the story, I had never been on the Catskills."<ref>{{cite book
   |author=Pierre M. Irving
   |title=The Life and Letters of Washington Irving
   |publisher=G. P. Putnam's Sons  |year=1883
   |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pp4EAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA176
   |volume=2  |page=176}}</ref>

== Plot ==
[[File:Rip van Winkle from Uncle Sam's panorama of Rip van Winkle and Yankee Doodle.jpg|thumb|{{circa|1875}} illustration of Rip Van Winkle by [[Thomas Nast]]]]

Rip Van Winkle, a Dutch American man with a habit of avoiding useful work, lives in a village at the foot of the [[Catskill Mountains]] in the years before the [[American Revolution]]. One day, he goes squirrel hunting in the mountains with his dog, Wolf, to escape his wife's irritation. As evening falls, he hears a voice calling his name and finds a man dressed in old-fashioned Dutch clothing and carrying a [[keg]]. Rip helps the man carry his burden to a cleft in the rocks from which thunderous noises are emanating; the source proves to be a group of bearded men wearing similar outfits and playing [[nine-pin bowling|ninepins]]. Not asking who these men are or how they know his name, Rip joins them in drinking from the keg he has helped carry and soon becomes so drunk that he falls asleep.

Rip awakens on a sunny morning, at the spot where he first saw the keg-carrier, and finds that many drastic changes have occurred; his beard is a foot long and has turned grey, his [[musket]] is badly deteriorated, and Wolf is nowhere to be found. Returning to his village, he discovers it to be larger than he remembers and filled with people in unfamiliar clothing, none of whom recognize him. When asked how he voted in the election that has just been held, he declares himself a loyal subject of [[George III]], unaware that the [[American Revolutionary War]] has taken place in his absence. He learns that many of his old friends either were killed in the war or have left the village, and is disturbed to find a young man who shares his name, mannerisms, and younger appearance. A young woman states that her father is Rip Van Winkle, who has been missing for 20 years, and an old woman recognises him as Rip. The young woman and the young Rip are his children, and the former has named her infant son after him as well.

Rip discovers that his wife has been dead for some time but is not saddened by the news. He learns via a village elder that the men he met in the mountains are said to be ghosts of the crew of the [[Dutch East India Company]] ship ''[[Halve Maen]]''. His daughter takes him into her home, and he soon resumes his usual idleness (unconcerned by the major political changes during his slumber) and begins telling his story to every stranger who visits the village. The tale is solemnly taken to heart (despite some assuming him to be insane) by the settlers, particularly by the old Dutch inhabitants who say that, whenever thunder is heard, the men in the mountains must be playing ninepins.

==Characters==
* Rip Van Winkle – A [[:wikt:henpecked|henpecked]] husband with an aversion to "profitable labour" and a meek, easygoing resident of the village who wanders off to the mountains and meets strange men playing ninepins
* Dame Van Winkle – Rip Van Winkle's [[:wikt: cantankerous|cantankerous]] and nagging wife
* 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 [[United States Congress|Congress]]
* Nicolaus Vedder – Landlord of the local inn where menfolk congregate
* Dominie Van Schaick – The local parson
* Jonathan Doolittle – Owner of the Union Hotel, the establishment that replaced the village inn
* Wolf – Van Winkle's faithful dog
* Man carrying a keg up the mountain – The ghost of one of Henry Hudson's crew members
* Ninepin bowlers – The ghosts of Henry Hudson's crewmen from his ship, the ''[[Halve Maen|Half-Moon]]''; they share their liquor with Rip Van Winkle and play a game of [[Nine-pin bowling|ninepins]].
* Brom Dutcher – Van Winkle's neighbor who went off to war while Van Winkle was sleeping
* Old woman – Woman who identifies Van Winkle when he returns to the village after his sleep
* Peter Vanderdonck – The oldest resident of the village, who confirms Van Winkle's identity and cites evidence indicating Van Winkle's strange tale is true
* Mr. Gardenier – Judith Gardenier's husband, a farmer
* Baby Rip – Judith Gardenier's infant son and Van Winkle's grandson

==Composition and publication history==
[[File:TheSketchbookTitlePage.jpg|thumb|The first installment of ''The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.'' (1819) included "Rip Van Winkle".]]
After a failed business venture with his brothers, Irving filed for bankruptcy in 1818.<ref>{{cite book |author= Burstein, Andrew |title= The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington Irving |location= New York |publisher= Basic Books |date= 2007 |page= [https://archive.org/details/originalknickerb00burs/page/117 117] |isbn= 978-0-465-00853-7 |url= https://archive.org/details/originalknickerb00burs/page/117}}</ref> Despondent, he turned to writing for possible financial support, although he had [[Writer's block|difficulty thinking of stories to write]]. He stayed in [[Birmingham]], England, where his brother-in-law [[Henry van Wart]] had opened a trading firm.<ref>{{cite book |author=Jones, Brian Jay |title=Washington Irving: An American Original |location= New York |publisher= Arcade Books |date= 2008 |page= 168 |isbn= 978-1-55970-836-4}}</ref> The two were reminiscing in June 1818 when Irving was suddenly inspired by their nostalgic conversation.<ref name=Burstein125>{{cite book |author= Burstein, Andrew |title= The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington Irving |location= New York |publisher= Basic Books |date= 2007 |page= [https://archive.org/details/originalknickerb00burs/page/125 125] |isbn= 978-0-465-00853-7 |url= https://archive.org/details/originalknickerb00burs/page/125}}</ref> Irving locked himself in his room and wrote nonstop all night. As he said, he felt like a man waking from a long sleep. He presented the first draft of "Rip Van Winkle" to the van Wart family over breakfast.<ref>{{cite book |author=Jones, Brian Jay |title= Washington Irving: An American Original |location= New York |publisher= Arcade Books |date=2008 |pages= 168–169 |isbn=978-1-55970-836-4}}</ref>

"Rip Van Winkle" was one of the first stories Irving proposed for his new book ''[[The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.]]'' Irving asked his brother Ebenezer to assist with publication in the United States. As Irving wrote, "I shall feel very anxious to hear of the success of this first re-appearance on the literary stage – Should it be successful, I trust I shall be able henceforth to keep up an occasional fire."<ref>{{cite book |author=Burstein, Andrew |title=The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington Irving |location=New York |publisher=Basic Books |date=2007 |page=[https://archive.org/details/originalknickerb00burs/page/120 120] |isbn=978-0-465-00853-7 |url=https://archive.org/details/originalknickerb00burs/page/120}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Jones, Brian Jay |title=Washington Irving: An American Original |location= New York |publisher= Arcade Books |date=2008 |pages= 177–178 |isbn=978-1-55970-836-4}}</ref> A British edition was published shortly afterward, by John Miller, who went out of business immediately thereafter. With help from his friend [[Walter Scott]], Irving was able to convince [[John Murray (1778–1843)|John Murray]] to take over British publication of the ''Sketch Book''.<ref>{{cite book |author=Burstein, Andrew |title=The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington Irving |location=New York |publisher=Basic Books |date=2007 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/originalknickerb00burs/page/149 149–150] |isbn=978-0-465-00853-7 |url=https://archive.org/details/originalknickerb00burs/page/149}}</ref>

Following the success of "Rip Van Winkle" in print and onstage, later celebrated editions were illustrated by [[Arthur Rackham]] (Heinemann, 1905) and [[N.C. Wyeth]] (McKay, 1921).

==Themes and literary forerunners==
{{trivia|date=June 2024}}
The story of "Rip Van Winkle" itself is widely thought to have been based on [[Johann Karl Christoph Nachtigal]]'s German folktale "[[Peter Klaus]]",<ref name=Burstein125/><ref name="Saint Rip"/> which is a shorter story set in a German village. It tells of a goatherd named Peter Klaus who goes looking for a lost goat. He finds some men drinking in the woods and after drinking some of their wine, falls asleep. When he wakes up, twenty years have passed.<ref name=Burstein125/><ref>A translation of the tale is available on Wikisource: [[:s:Grimm's Goblins (1876)/Peter the Goatherd|Peter the Goatherd]].</ref>

The story also bears some similarities to stories from East Asia, including the third-century AD Chinese tale of "[[Ranka (legend)|Ranka]]", as retold by [[Lionel Giles]] in ''A Gallery of Chinese Immortals'', and the eighth-century [[Japanese literature|Japanese tale]] "[[Urashima Tarō]]".<ref name="Saint Rip"/> The Hindu story of [[Muchukunda]] from the ''[[Bhagavatam]]'' also displays many similarities to the story of "Rip Van Winkle".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mythfolklore.net/india/encyclopedia/muchukunda.htm |title=Muchukunda |website=Mythfolklore.net |date=October 16, 2007 |access-date=October 30, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://vedabase.net/sb/10/51/en1 |title=Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 10 Chapter 51 |publisher=Vedabase.net |access-date=2013-10-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012010630/http://vedabase.net/sb/10/51/en1 |archive-date=2013-10-12 }}</ref>

In Christian tradition, there is a similar, well-known story of "The [[Seven Sleepers]] of [[Ephesus]]", which recounts a group of early Christians who hid in a cave circa 250 AD to escape the persecution of Christians during the reign of the [[Roman Empire|Roman]] emperor [[Decius]]. They fell into a miraculous sleep and woke some 200 years later during the reign of [[Theodosius II]] to discover that the city and the whole Empire had become Christian.<ref name="Saint Rip"/> This Christian story is recounted by [[Islam]] and appears in a famous [[Sura]] of the [[Quran]], Sura [[Al-Kahf]].<ref>[http://irebd.com/quran/english/surah-18/ Quran Surah Al-Kahf]</ref> The version recalls a group of young monotheists escaping from persecution within a cave and emerging hundreds of years later.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://quran.com/18/9-26|title=Surat Al-Kahf (18:9–26)|website= The Holy Qur'an – القرآن الكريم}}</ref>

One story in Judaism concerns [[Honi HaMe'agel]], a miracle-working sage of the 1st century BC, who was a historical character but to whom various myths were attached. While traveling one day, Honi saw a man planting a [[carob]] tree and asked him about it. The man explained that the tree would take 70 years to bear fruit and that he was planting it not for himself but for the generations to follow him. Later that day, Honi sat down to rest but fell asleep for 70 years; when he awoke, he saw a man picking fruit from a fully mature carob tree. Asked whether he had planted it, the man replied that he had not but that his grandfather had planted it for him.<ref name=Talmud>Babylonian Talmud Taanit 23a [http://www.mechon-mamre.org/b/l/l2803.htm Hebrew/Aramaic text at Mechon-Mamre] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809103228/http://www.mechon-mamre.org/b/l/l2803.htm |date=2020-08-09 }}</ref><ref name=ChoniLATimes2000>{{cite news
  |newspaper=[[The Los Angeles Times]]
  |url=https://www.latimes.com/socal/glendale-news-press/news/tn-gnp-xpm-2000-08-29-export45571-story.html
  |title=Community Commentary |author=Margaret Snyder |date=August 29, 2000 |access-date=November 10, 2022}}</ref>

Another similar story in the Islamic tradition is of [[Uzair]] (usually identified with the Biblical [[Ezra]]), whose grief at the [[Destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians]]  was so great that God took his soul and brought him back to life after Jerusalem was reconstructed. He rode on his revived donkey and entered his native place. But the people did not recognize him, nor did his household, except the maid, who was now an old blind woman. He prayed to God to cure her blindness, and she could see again. He meets his son, who recognizes him by a mole between his shoulders and is older than he was.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Turkish Treasures Culture /Art / Tourism Magazine|year=1978|url=http://kilyos.ee.bilkent.edu.tr/~history/Ext/Zubdat.html |first=G'nsel |last=Renda |title=The Miniatures of the Zubdat Al- Tawarikh}}</ref><ref>Ibn Kathir, Stories of the Prophets, translated by Shaikh muhammed Mustafa Gemeiah, Office of the Grand Imam, Sheikh al-Azhar, El-Nour Publishing, Egypt, 1997, Ch.21, pp.322-4</ref> (see [[Uzair#Islamic tradition and literature]]).

[[Albert Einstein]]'s [[theory of relativity]], under which a person traveling at near light speed would experience only the passage of a few years but would return to find centuries had passed on Earth, provides a broad new scope to express essentially the same literary theme – for example, in the opening chapter of [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]'s ''[[Rocannon's World]]''. In [[Robert Heinlein]]'s ''[[Time for the Stars]]'', Earth sends out a fleet of relativistic ships to explore the galaxy, their crews hailed as stalwart pioneers – but after a century, which they experience as only a few years, faster-than-light ships are developed and the earlier ones are recalled, their crews discovering that they had become unwanted anachronisms on a changed Earth. The protagonist notices a newspaper headline disparagingly announcing the arrival of himself and his shipmates as "yet another crew of Rip Van Winkles".

In the tenth chapter of his book ''[[Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers]]'', the third-century AD Greek historian [[Diogenes Laërtius]] relates the story of the legendary sage [[Epimenides of Knossos]], who was said to have been a shepherd on the island of [[Crete]].<ref name="Rothschild">{{cite book|last1=Rothschild|first1=Clare K.|title=Paul in Athens: The Popular Religious Context of Acts 17|date=2014|publisher=Mohr Siebeck|location=Tübingen, Germany|isbn=978-3-16-153260-3|pages=40–42|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1zTsvXKcl50C&q=long+sleep+Epimenides+Rip+Van+Winkle+Seven+Sleepers&pg=PA41}}</ref><ref name="Hansen">{{cite book|last1=Hansen|first1=William|title=The Book of Greek & Roman Folktales, Legends & Myths|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WwZpDQAAQBAJ&q=long+sleep+Epimenides+Rip+Van+Winkle+Seven+Sleepers&pg=PA133|date=2017|publisher=Princeton University Press|location=Princeton, New Jersey|isbn=9780691170152|pages=132–133}}</ref> One day, Epimenides followed after a sheep that had wandered off and after becoming tired, went into a cave under [[Mount Ida]] and fell asleep. When he awoke, he continued searching for the sheep but could not find it, so he returned to his father's farm, only to discover that it was under new ownership. He went home, only to discover that the people there did not know him. Finally, he encountered his younger brother, who had become an old man, and learned that he had been asleep in the cave for fifty-seven years.<ref name="Rothschild"/><ref name="Hansen"/> According to the different sources that Diogenes relates, Epimenides lived to be 154, 157, or 299 years old.<ref>{{cite book |author=Diogenes Laërtius |translator-last=Hick |translator-first=R. D.|title=Lives of Eminent Philosophers: Books I-V|location= Cambridge|publisher= Harvard|date= 1972|page=115}}</ref> Multiple sources have identified the story of Epimenides as the earliest known variant of the "Rip Van Winkle" fairy tale.<ref name="Rothschild"/><ref name="Hansen"/><ref>{{cite book|last1=Welch|first1=Deshler|title=The Theater|date=9 May 1887|publisher=Theatre Publishing Company|location=New York City, New York|page=139|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8-QRAAAAYAAJ&q=ancient+Greek+Rip+Van+Winkle&pg=PA139|volume=3|access-date=21 June 2017}}</ref><ref name="Saint Rip">{{cite web|last1=Thorn|first1=John|title=Saint Rip|url=http://www.nyfolklore.org/pubs/voic36-1-2/st-rip.html|website=nyfolklore.org|publisher=Voices: The Journal of New York Folklore|access-date=21 June 2017|archive-date=18 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171018210936/http://www.nyfolklore.org/pubs/voic36-1-2/st-rip.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Bates|first1=Alfred|title=The Drama; Its History, Literature and Influence on Civilization: American Drama|date=1906|publisher=Historical Publishing Company|location=London, England|page=121|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nx8ZAQAAIAAJ&q=ancient+Greek+Rip+Van+Winkle&pg=PA121|volume=20|access-date=21 June 2017}}</ref>

The theme is taken up in numerous modern works of science fiction. In [[H. G. Wells]]'s ''[[The Sleeper Awakes]]'', a man who sleeps for 203 years wakes up in a completely transformed London, where he has become the richest man in the world. In the original [[Buck Rogers]] book, the protagonist falls asleep under the influence of a gas in a mine, sleeps for four centuries, and wakes to find America under the rule of Mongol invaders – whereupon he places himself at the head of the freedom fighters. In [[Roger Zelazny]]'s [[science-fantasy]] series ''[[The Chronicles of Amber]]'', protagonist Corwyn experiences drinking and revelry in an underground lair with otherworldly people who try to entice him into slumber; he knows this is a centuries-of-sleep trap and resists; the passage is similar in theme to both "Rip Van Winkle" and especially the Orkney story. The movies ''[[Idiocracy (film)|Idiocracy]]'' and ''[[Time Trap (film)|Time Trap]]'' also bear some similarities.

==Adaptations==
[[File:Joseph Jefferson as Ripvanwinkle by Napoleon SArony (1821-1896).jpg|thumb|[[Joseph Jefferson]] as Rip Van Winkle (1896)]]
The story has been adapted for other media over the past two centuries, in cartoons, films, stage plays, music, and other media.

* Theater:
** Actor [[Joseph Jefferson]] performed various dramatizations of the character on the 19th-century stage.<ref name="Jefferson">{{cite book
  |last1=Jefferson |first1=Joseph |last2=Boucicault |first2=Dion
  |title=Rip Van Winkle (Introduction)|date=1895
  |publisher=Dodd, Mead and Company
  |pages=[https://archive.org/details/ripvanwinkle00jeffgoog/page/n7 401]–403
  |url=https://archive.org/details/ripvanwinkle00jeffgoog
  |access-date=May 23, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Hischak">{{cite book
|last1=Hischak |first1=Thomas S. |title=American Literature on Stage and Screen
|date=2012 |publisher=McFarland and Company |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |pages=197–198
|isbn=9780786492794 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vfie60kGGuAC
|access-date=May 23, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book
   |last=Keller  |first=Helen |title=The Story of My Life |title-link=The Story of My Life (biography) |year=1903
   |publisher=Ascent Audio |isbn=978-1-7225-0392-5 |language=en|oclc=1263778902}}</ref>
** In Chicago, the Sigman Brothers adapted the story to a full musical.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Performances
     |url=https://www.thesigmanbrothers.com/upcoming-shows
     |access-date=2022-08-29 |website=thesigmanbrothers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web 
   |title=Winners Announced For The BroadwayWorld 2021 Chicago Awards
   |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/chicago/article/Winners-Announced-For-The-BroadwayWorld-2021-REGION-Awards-2001010170
   |access-date=2022-08-29 |website=BroadwayWorld.com |language=en}}</ref>
* Film:
** [[Rip Van Winkle (1903 film)|''Rip Van Winkle'' (1903 film)]]<ref name="Hischak"/>
** [[Rip Van Winkle (1910 film)|''Rip Van Winkle'' (1910 film)]]
** [[Rip Van Winkle (1912 film)|''Rip Van Winkle'' (1912 film)]]
** [[Rip Van Winkle (1921 film)|''Rip Van Winkle'' (1921 film)]]<ref name="Hischak" />
* Music:
** [[George Frederick Bristow]]'s  1855 ''Rip van Winkle'' opera
** The 1882 operetta [[Rip Van Winkle (operetta)|''Rip Van Winkle'']], a romantic opera adaptation<ref name="Hischak"/>
** The 1901 [[novelty song]] "Rip Van Winkle Was a Lucky Man" composed by [[Jean Schwartz]] with lyrics by [[William Jerome]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Image 1 of Rip Van Winkle was a lucky man |url=https://www.loc.gov/resource/music.musihas-100007952/?sp=1&st=image |website=Library of Congress |access-date=7 August 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title="Rip Van Winkle Was A Lucky Man" Dan W. Quinn (1904) Victor 1326 = Wm. Jerome & Jean Schwartz song |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NWyCPffxF0 |website=YouTube | date=27 December 2022 |access-date=7 August 2024}}</ref>
** The 1960s [[Tale Spinners for Children]] includes a dramatization of the story.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.artsreformation.com/talespinners |title=Tale Spinners for Children |website=artsreformation.com |access-date=2019-04-18 |archive-date=2013-08-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130813045512/http://www.artsreformation.com/talespinners |url-status=dead }}</ref>
** The 1961-64 [[doo-wop]] single "Rip Van Winkle" by [[The Devotions]] 
** The 2006 song "Rip Van Winkle" by [[Doom metal]] band [[Witch (American band)|Witch]]
* Poetry: British [[poet laureate]] [[Carol Ann Duffy]] wrote "Mrs Rip Van Winkle" from the perspective of the wife, who in the original story is voiceless.
* Cartoons and animated films:
** An episode of ''[[The Flintstones]]'' titled "Rip Van Flintstone" (aired November 5, 1965)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://pro.imdb.com/title/tt0580221
    |title=IMDb Pro: Rip Van Flintstone Business Details
    |website=pro.imdb.com |date=July 27, 2007 |access-date=October 30, 2013}}</ref>
** An episode of ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'' titled “Rip Van Kitty” (aired September 16, 1989)<ref>{{cite web| url=https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0827314/
|title=Rip Van Kitty/U.S. Acres: Grabbity/The Big Catnap Business Details
|website=IMDb Pro |access-date=January 28, 2023}}</ref>
** An episode of the [[Laurel and Hardy (animated series)|''Laurel and Hardy'' cartoon series]] titled "Flipped Van Winkles"
** ''Tales of Washington Irving'', a one-hour animated television special about "[[The Legend of Sleepy Hollow]]" and "Rip Van Winkle"<ref name="Hischak"/>
** In [[1978]], [[Will Vinton]] directed, produced and animated a 26 minute [[claymation]] short of the story, nominated for an [[Academy Award]]<ref>{{cite web
  |url=http://willvinton.net |title=Will Vinton's Personal Website |publisher=Willvinton.net |access-date=2013-10-30}}</ref>
* Comics
** Disney's "Rip van Goofy" (February 1, 1966)<ref>{{cite journal
   |issue=305 |journal=Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (5) |publisher=Gold Key
   |volume= 26 |date=February 1, 1966 |title=Rip van Goofy}}</ref>
** ''[[Boys' Life]]'''s ''Dink & Duff'' comic strip has Dink, an African-American [[Cub Scouting (Boy Scouts of America)|Cub Scout]], lapse into a coma and awaken in 2068. A boy addresses him as "Rip van Dinkle" and explains that during the past 80 years, the United States has been replaced by an authoritarian monarchy. Dink eventually awakens back in 1988.
* Television
** [[E. G. Marshall]] plays the title character in a 1958 episode of ''[[Shirley Temple's Storybook]]''.
** ''[[Wishbone (TV series)|Wishbone]]'' shows the dog imagining himself as the title character, complete with the men playing ninepins and his mistaking the George Washington Inn for his old hangout, the King George Inn.<ref>{{cite news
   |last1=Moore |first1=Scott |title=In Dogged Pursuit of Literacy
   |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/tv/1995/11/05/in-dogged-pursuit-of-literacy/0d021d6c-bad7-4692-9425-9d990e718672
   |access-date=March 26, 2017 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]
   |date=November 5, 1995}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Mendoza |first1=Manuel
|title=Tales Wag 'Wishbone' To Lure Kids To Classics
|url=http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1995-10-08/entertainment/9510060302_1_wishbone-barney-friends-pbs
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170326225948/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1995-10-08/entertainment/9510060302_1_wishbone-barney-friends-pbs
|url-status=dead
|archive-date=March 26, 2017
|access-date=March 26, 2017 |newspaper=[[The Sun Sentinel]]
|date=October 8, 1995}}</ref>
[[File:CC No 12 Rip Van Winkle.JPG|thumb|''[[Classics Illustrated]]'' issue #12]]

==Statue==
[[File:Rip Van Winkle Statue Hunter Mountain.jpg|thumb|A sculpture of Rip Van Winkle located near the summit of Hunter Mountain Ski Resort]]
There is a [[Rip Van Winkle Statue (Irvington, New York)|statue of Rip Van Winkle]] in Irvington, New York. A sculpture of Rip Van Winkle can also be found near the summit of the [[Hunter Mountain (ski area)|Hunter Mountain Ski Resort]] in the Catskills. There is also a statue on Main Street in [[Catskill (village), New York |Catskill, NY]].

==In popular culture==
The name ''Rip Van Winkle'' has been used to name:
* Infrastructure ([[Rip Van Winkle Bridge]])<ref>{{cite web
  |url=https://nysba.ny.gov/bridge/rip-van-winkle
  |title=Rip Van Winkle Bridge |website=nysba.ny.gov}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
     |last=Moran |first=Nancy |title=One-Way Tolls Confusing Some Drivers
     |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=August 13, 1970
     |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/08/13/archives/oneway-tolls-confusing-some-drivers.html
     |access-date=April 9, 2018}}</ref>
* Consumer goods ([[Old Rip Van Winkle]] whiskey)<ref>{{cite book
   |author=Van Winkle Campbell, Sally |year=1999
   |title=But Always Fine Bourbon: Pappy Van Winkle and the Story of Old Fitzerald
   |location=Louisville, KY  |publisher=Limestone Lane Press  |isbn=9780967420806}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
|newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/19/us/kentuckys-case-of-the-missing-bourbon.html?smid=pl-share
|title=The case of the Missing Bourbon |author=Gabriel Trip |date=October 18, 2013}}</ref> 
* Music: 
** American composer [[George Whitefield Chadwick]] wrote a concert overture titled ''Rip Van Winkle'' in 1879, when he was a student in [[Leipzig]].
** American Doom metal band [[Witch (American band)|Witch]] performs a song titled "Rip Van Winkle" detailing the story in song form.
** American [[Doo-wop]] band [[The Devotions]] released their [[novelty song|novelty single]] "Rip Van Winkle" in 1961 on Delta Records.
** American psych-rock band [[Shannon and the Clams]] released a song called "Rip Van Winkle" on their third album, ''Dreams from the Rat House''.
** American alternative rock band [[Ween]] mentions Rip Van Winkle in numerous songs on their 1991 album ''[[The Pod]]'', most notably the song "Sketches of Winkle".
* Video games: 
**The 1990 video game ''[[Super Mario World]]'' features an enemy known as "Rip Van Fish", which constantly sleeps unless disturbed.
**In the 2018 video game, [[Red Dead Redemption 2]], one of the characters ([[John Marston]]) uses the name "Rip Van Winkle" when questioned by the authorities
* Television: 
** In the 1961 ''[[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]'' episode "[[The Rip Van Winkle Caper]]", four gold thieves place themselves in suspended animation for 100 years in order to escape the law. Upon revival, they find one of them already dead. Two others die later, and the last man dies of thirst, offering his gold to a citizen in exchange for water. But he doesn't realize that, in the intervening years, gold became possible to manufacture and became practically worthless.
** On the BBC television show ''[[Doctor Who]]'', the tenth episode of the ninth series (titled "Sleep No More") involves a machine called Morpheus that can condense a full night's worth of sleep into mere minutes. People who refuse to use Morpheus are colloquially called "Rips", referencing Rip van Winkle.

==See also==
* [[Cryonics]]
* [[Epimenides]]
* [[Rip Van Wink]] from ''The Beano''
* [[Seven Sleepers]], the Christian and Islamic story of a group of youths who hid inside a cave at [[Ephesus]] to escape Roman persecutions and emerged some 300 years later.
* [[Sleeping Beauty]]
* [[The Bedbug]], the story of Prisypkin, who was frozen in the basement for fifty years.
* [[Niña de las Peras]] (''Pear Girl''), who disappeared, reappearing decades later with the same appearance she had on the day she disappeared.
* [[The Voyage of Bran]], an Irish tale where Bran's crew return to Ireland only to find that many years have passed and they been long forgotten.
==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{cite web|url=http://www.cowbeech.force9.co.uk/irving.htm |website=cowbeech.force9.co.uk|title='Rip Van Winkle' and 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' – Irving's Fictions of Revolution}}
* {{cite web|url=http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/Guides3/Winkle.html |website=Cummings Study Guides|title='Rip Van Winkle' Study Guide}}
* {{cite web|url=http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/irving|website=Birmingham.gov.uk|title=Washington Irving in Birmingham|access-date=2003-11-11|archive-date=2015-10-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151002165621/http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/irving|url-status=dead}}

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* {{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/ripvanwinkle00irvi |title=Rip Van Winkle|author=Irving, Washington |others=Illustrated by [[N. C. Wyeth]] |date=1921 |via=Internet Archive}}
* {{cite book|url=http://www.bartleby.com/310/2/1.html |title=Rip Van Winkle|author=Irving, Washington |date=6 September 2022 |publisher=Harvard Classics |via=Bartleby}}
* {{cite book|url=http://www.kiddierecords.com/archive/week_42.htm |title=Rip Van Winkle|author=Irving, Washington|publisher=Decca |via=KiddieRecords |type=Audiobook|date=1946|access-date=2007-05-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070629165524/http://www.kiddierecords.com/archive/week_42.htm|archive-date=2007-06-29}}
* {{cite AV media |last=Dickson |first=W.K.L. |url=https://archive.org/details/rip_van_winkle_1896 |title=Rip Van Winkle|date=1896 |medium=Film |via=Internet Archive}}
* {{cite book|url=http://www.geocities.com/donaldsauter/karl-katz.htm|title='Karl Katz', a comparison|via=Internet Archive |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091028074618/http://www.geocities.com/donaldsauter/karl-katz.htm|archive-date=2009-10-28}}
* {{cite AV media  |last=Irving |first=Washington |url=https://archive.org/download/TheaterGuildontheAir/Tgoa_48-12-26_ep136-Rip_Van_Winkle.mp3 |date=1948 |publisher=[[Theatre Guild on the Air]] |type=Radio play|title=Rip Van Winkle|via=Internet Archive}}

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