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It is doubtful, however, that Cavendish's plays were ever acted, and many critics claim they are basically "unactable" (Perry, First Duchess, 214; Grant, Margaret the First, 161; Gagen, New Woman, 32-34; Jones, Glorious Fame, 130; Payne, "Dramatic Dreamscape," 30).
Pure Resistance: Queer(y)ing Virginity in William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure and Margaret Cavendish's The Convent of Pleasure
This unactable drama is combined in these two volumes with much briefer and stageable pieces.
The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy, 2 vols
These plays have the reputation of being unactable and unreadable, but they set a new example that prepared the ground for the great Neoclassical tragedians Pierre Corneille and Jean Racine.
Jodelle, Etienne
Here, Hardy writes in defense of his "unactable" play-like poem, arguing that "the methods of a book and the methods of a play ...
According to it one must conclude that such productions as Shelley's "Prometheus Bound," Byron's "Cain," and many other unactable play-like poems are a waste of means, and, in his own words, "may be read just as faute de mieux, shoe-leather may be used as an article of diet." Jack Farrell, in his forthcoming review for Victorian Studies of The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy, edited by Rosemarie Morgan (2010), points to Harold Orel's essay on "Hardy's Contribution to the Epic Tradition" (ARCTH, pp.
Thomas Hardy
during which Delacroix was working intensely on his Decapitation of Doge Marino Faliero (Wallace Collection), a subject from a tragedy by Byron which Byron perceptively conceded was unactable. The headless body of the Doge, a victim of the Venetian patricians, rolls bleeding down a steep flight of marble stairs.
Bonington's coastal scenes
As for the text, the editor's heroic attempt to make it accessible demonstrates why the play is probably unactable. Chateaufort's mythological jargon, Granger's Latin tags, and Gareau's patois are all given huge numbers of footnotes which, on some pages, take up more space than the text itself.
Oeuvres completes, vol. 3: Theatre
While noting the law students' attraction to theater, Harold Love observes that "the fact that many students came from at least a year or two at the universities, and that the transition required an initiation into a new institutional culture, meant that the forming of cliques and circles linked by the exchange of manuscripts was no less common." (41) It is possible that Marston circulated a text that was unactable in its entirety.
Writing and revenge: John Marston's Histriomastix
Sagay's screenplay, her first, features unactable dialogue that probably looked smart on paper but sounds phony in real people's mouths, and the conspicuous lack of chemistry between the bored-looking Firth and well-laundered Long hardly aids belief in their transgressive romance.
THE SECRET LAUGHTER OF WOMEN
While many of them seem unactable, they actually reveal an imagination deeply informed by the contingencies of the stage.
Monoogue as dramatic action in Brian Friel's 'Faith Healer' and 'Molly Sweeney.'
Nothing in his stage plays is quite so touching or dramatic as the unactable moment in his idyll Lancelot and Elaine when Elaine creates a mindscape in which Lancelot is conscious she is looking at him.
Tennyson and Zeno: three infinities
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