Excerpt from Rip Van Winkle, as Played The text of Rip Van Winkle, as played by Joseph Jefferson, is here for the first time published. The aim has been to supply such illustrations and explanations as will best recall the play to those who have seen it. To this end, Mrs. Cora Hamilton Bell has, with Mr. Jefferson's approval, amplified and supplemented the stage directions, and has supplied descriptive prefaces to each act. Many of the illustrations are direct reproductions from photographs of Mr. Jefferson in the character of Rip. Those in the text are mostly from drawings by Richard Creifelds, made directly from scenes in the play. The portrait is from a photograph of Mr. Jefferson recently taken, and is the one best liked by him. Most interesting of all, perhaps, will be the reproductions of paintings by Mr. Jefferson himself of scenes in the Catskill Mountains, and the illustration facing page 120, wherein the figure is by F. Eugene Smith, and the background by Mr. Jefferson. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.