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The most intelligent performer is he who recognizes most surely this "actable" and distinguishes in it the more from the less.
What would you think of any other artist the painter or the novelist whose governing forces should be the dinner and the suburban trains? The old dramatists didn't defer to them not so much at least and that's why they're less and less actable. If they're touched the large loose men it's only to be mutilated and trivialised.
When he once more presented himself, the director, while expressing great admiration for the excellence of the verse and for some of the ideas, manifested some doubt as to whether the play was actable.
Scott had no dramatic faculty; Shelley's Cenci, despite its splendid poetry, is not actable; indeed the only one of the great English nineteenth century Pléiade who was successful on the stage was Coleridge; and Remorse and Zapolya are not masterpieces. Of Milman notice has been taken in his far truer vocation as historian.
It was while he was engaged in producing the plays of others that he brought out also his own 'Mistress Inger at Ostraat' , and the 'Vikings at Helgeland' , both of them actable and often acted. They are romanticist in temper, suggesting now Schiller and now Hugo.
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