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.[24][25][26]
- In Chicago, the Sigman Brothers adapted the story to a full musical.[27][28]
- Film: Rip Van Winkle (1903 film),[25] Rip Van Winkle (1921 film).[25] Rip (2022 film).
- Music:
- George Frederick Bristow's 1855 Rip van Winkle opera.
- The 1882 Rip Van Winkle (operetta), a romantic opera adaptation.[25]
- The 1960s Tale Spinners for Children included a dramatization of the story.[29]
- 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 entitled "Rip Van Flintstone" (aired November 5, 1965).[30]
- An episode of Garfield and Friends entitled “Rip Van Kitty” (aired September 16, 1989)[31]
- An episode of the Laurel and Hardy cartoon series entitled "Flipped Van Winkles".
- Tales of Washington Irving, a one-hour animated television special about "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle".[25]
- A claymation version of the story, nominated for an Academy Award.[32]
- Comics
- Disney's "Rip van Goofy" (February 1, 1966)[33]
- Boys' Life's Dink & Duff comic strip has Dink, an African-American Cub Scout, lapse into a coma and awakens 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 A boy addresses him as "Rip van Dinkle" and explains that during the past 80 years the United States has been replaced by an authoritarian monarchy.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 played the title character in a 1958 episode of Shirley Temple's Storybook.
- Wishbone showed the dog imagining himself as the title character, complete with the men playing nine-pins and his mistaking the George Washington Inn for his old hangout, the King George Inn.[34][35]
