Rip Van Winkle could attract the attention of the other famous personality from Europe whose name was Jean Robert Planquette, French composer. He was very famous due to the songs. At the same time he was author of famous operettas. But Rip Van Winkle, theatre single, brought him reputation all over the world. He worked in accordance to Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow written by Washington Irving which reworked by Dion. This play consists of three acts [5, 13/08/2015]. Then Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille created the French version of this operetta under the title “Rip”. It was written like French libretto and warmly greeted by European audience of the spoken time. Washington Irving with his gentle humor could reached success with the attraction of the creative persons who helped, still helps and will help the thoughts of Irving to live long. Among the creative persons we can easily find the troops of animators of several cartoons dedicated to …show more content…
I, you and hundreds of thousands watch and enjoy them. The list of cartoons dedicated to Rip Van Winkle includes: Rip Van Snuffy (Snuffy Smith), Rip Van Winkle, Popeye meets Rip Van Winkle, Molly Moo Cow and Rip Van Winkle, Three gnomes-Rip, Van and Winkle, Happily ever after-Rip Van Winkle (AKA Rip Winkle) Part1-4, Romanian cartoon: Povesti Cu Lipici Pentru Cei Mici – Rip Van Winkle New etc. Of course, each animator approached to the story, Rip Van Winkle, from own point of view. They added some own imaginations to the cartoons to make the story merry that helps children be happy and enjoy the time. As abovementioned the works with the description of the grumbling, aggressive wives annoyed the critics. Sometimes critics criticize such works as anti-feminist works. Rip Van Winkle among works possessing Gothic elements including the depiction of negative sides of wives also became the point to which the critics targeted their thoughts about