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Definition of Actability
1. [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Actability
Literary usage of Actability
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poetry by Modern Poetry Association (1916)
"As to its actability, opinions differ. Two or three experienced producers in the
art theatre movement think that a stage production would clarify and ..."
2. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the by James Terry White (1910)
"It has been remarked by many critics that Mr. MacKaye achieves the rare combination
of literary excellence and actability in his dramas. ..."
3. English Dramaby Felix Emmanuel Schelling by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1914)
"But the thread of literature and that of actability (shall we call it?) tended,
from the first, to fall apart. There are plays of Shakespeare's own time ..."
4. Art and the Actor by Constant Coquelin, Abby Langdon Alger, Henry James (1915)
"... I believe, with nothing whatever in common save an intimate actability, of
which he appears to have taken with equal ease an extraordinary advantage. ..."
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