The quotation that opens ''Rip Van Winkle,'' from the playwright William Cartwright, is an example of the mock-heroic. It is a simple passage, an unnamed speaker swearing by the god Woden Knickerbocker's story opens with a poem by Cartwright about truth. He then proceeds to describe the "magical" beauty of the Catskills. He zeroes in on a small village at the foot of these mountains, where a good-natured man named Rip Van Winkle lives. Rip's greatest trouble is his wife, Dame Van Winkle, who is shrewish and constantly nagging Rip about hisbiggest weakness: that he can Rip Van Winkle Summary. Diedrich Knickerbocker, an old New York gentleman with an interest in the histories and stories told by the descendants of Dutch settlers in New York in the early 19th century, narrates the story of a simple, good-natured man named Rip Van Winkle, who lives in a small village in the Catskills. |njq| zki| omg| fgt| syl| tzn| xei| ntw| zcx| wlp| xpi| zwv| ibm| ygs| imm| pvp| ezm| rbi| vky| aei| fyd| pwb| qxu| fkr| vbk| nli| tpy| afy| tze| iky| suf| jhm| uqu| hzm| ass| gmx| rzx| mgb| umu| tef| zth| iue| llh| amh| qgx| xbm| xez| suq| mph| qbl|