Literary Gaffes
This page contains a selection of howlers relating to literature, gathered from 4 best-selling compilations by Viking Press published under the pseudonym of Alexander Abingdon in the 1930s. The selected extracts, edited and rearranged, are reproduced for readers in countries where the book is in the public domain, which, to the best of our knowledge, includes Australia (because more than 70 years have passed since the book's publication and because the so-called anonymous rule applies). For other countries, please check your local copyright laws.
In Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Sir Toby was Olivia’s uncle, but otherwise he was no relation to her.
By his clothes he seemed a person of great posterity.
My teacher taught us how to interrupt poetry.
Chaucer was a great English poet who wrote many poems and verses and sometimes wrote literature.
Immature actors are those who we go to see for charity.
Q. In what circumstances does the fourth Act of Hamlet begin? A. It commences immediately after the third Act.
Thorton Wilder, author of The Bridge of San Luis Rey, was born in 1896, and died in the future.
Q. Tell all that you know about Keats. A. I don’t know anything. I don’t even know what they are.
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