a. [UN-1 7 b.] That cannot be acted (on the stage); unsuitable for dramatic representation. Hence (in recent use) Unactability.
1810. Byron, Lett. to Hodgson, 3 Oct. Before the fire was out, he writes … to inquire whether this farce was not converted into fuel, with about two thousand other unactable manuscripts.
1830. Miss Mitford, in L’Estrange, Life (1870), II. xiii. 298. Goldoni is the most insipid writer I ever read; Alfieri is a very fine one but unactable.
1871. Public Opinion, 16 Dec., 778. Mr. Browning has written brief unactable dramas.
