Talk:The Nightingale

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[edit] Title of the fairy tale

Even though the nightingale in the fairy tale is owned by an emperor, the English title is just The Nightingale (a direct translation of the Danish title Nattergalen), not The Emperor's Nightingale, as evidenced by these Google searches:

  • +"hans christian andersen" +"the nightingale" - 39,700 hits
  • +"hans christian andersen" +"the emperor's nightingale" - 925 hits

Therefore, I moved the content of the page The Emperor's Nightingale to the page The Nightingale, turned the former into a redirect page, changed the links on other pages accordingly and did a similar thing on Wikisource.

IMDb lists a 1949 Czech stop-motion puppet animation of this fairy tale by the title of Cisaruv slavík. The title of the U.S. version, narrated by Boris Karloff, was The Emperor's Nightingale. [1] It is not to be confused with the better-known Andersen tale The Emperor's New Clothes.

--Bwiki 15:54, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

I didn't really stop to think about it I guess. In Dutch (I'm from Belgium) the fairy tale is known as The Chinese Nightingale. Before I added the link in List of fairy tales I double checked if the entry was already in Wikipedia, and it was under the name of The Emperor's Nightingale. I might type out synopsis and stuff later on, but I've still got a host of other fairy tales to work on :) --Steerpike 19:26, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

---I rewrote the synopsis a bit. This included removing the 'moral' at the end about the Emperor learning about the importance of nature - This may be one point of the story, but it doesn't actually say so in the story itself. I also removed the original Danish text from the synopsis. It may be a good idea to show an excerpt to give a sense of the original wording, but it seemed rather long for a synopsis - Perhaps someone could put it into a category called 'excerpt' or some such.

---There's a Max Ernst collage called "The Chinese Nightingale". It's a bomb with female/bird features- I think it was based on this story. You might want to see about linking it

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