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The Emperor's New Clothes

fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen
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The Emperor's New Clothes
Vilhelm Pedersen (1820 - 1859) · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Summary

The Emperor's New Clothes is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 0.97% of literary work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (13,985 views/month, #277 of 28,446).[2]

Key Facts

  • Author: Hans Christian Andersen[3]
  • Genre: literary fairy tale[4]
  • Commons category: The Emperor's New Clothes[5]
  • Language of work or name: Danish[6]
  • Country of origin: Denmark[7]
  • Catalog code: 305[8]
  • Publication date: April 7, 1837[9]
  • Has edition or translation: The Emperor's New Clothes[10], Q42308939[11], Císařovy nové šaty[12], Q55120584[13], The Emperor’s New Clothes / Kejserens nye Klæder, 1837[14], Książę Świniarek oraz inne bajki[15]
  • Topic's main category: Category:The Emperor's New Clothes[16]
  • Commons gallery: The Emperor's New Clothes[17]
  • Inspired by: Tales of Count Lucanor[18]
  • Facet of: gymnophobia[19]
  • Published in: Eventyr og historier[20]
  • Title: Kejserens nye Klæder[21]
  • Different from: The Emperor Wears No Clothes[22]
  • First line: For mange Aar siden levede en Keiser, som holdt saa uhyre meget af smukke nye Klæder, at han gav alle sine Penge ud for ret at blive pyntet.[23]
  • Last line: Og Kammerherrerne gik og bar paa Slæbet, som der slet ikke var.[24]
  • Derivative work: Pomádé király új ruhája[25]
  • Copyright status: public domain[26]
  • Narrative motif: naked person made to believe that they are clothed[27]
  • Quotation or excerpt: Men han har jo ikke noget paa[28]
  • P14541: 2R4lzi[29]

Why It Matters

The Emperor's New Clothes has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] It is known by 35 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Related Entities

Denmark Hans Christian Andersen literary work Lolita public domain

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . andersen.sdu.dk. andersen.sdu.dk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . Motif-Index of Folk-Literature. wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . da.wikisource.org. Retrieved . da.wikisource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 9d ago · HedgeHog · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'bg', 'ca', 'commons', 'cs', 'cy', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'et', 'e
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    P14541 → 2R4lzi
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  3. 16w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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