Washington Irving’s story of the idle Catskill villager who sleeps for twenty years was turned into a play by many hands, and this edition presents Charles Burke’s version with notes showing how the text changed in performance. Rip, his scolding wife, the scheming Derrick, and the ghostly crew of Hendrick Hudson fill two acts of village comedy and mountain magic.
A document of nineteenth-century American theatre and one of its most enduring vehicles for comic actors. Download the free EPUB.