Stanislavski's Legacy by Constantin Stanislavski -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Page Half Title Page Dedication Title Page Copyright Page Foreword to the Second Edition Editor’s Foreword Table of Contents Part One “In art you do not command, you persuade….”

The Long-Hoped-for Child What Shall We Learn? The Hard Job of Being an Actor Types of Actors On Being Truthful in Acting Acting Looks Easy An Actor Is a Teacher of Beauty and Truth—Letter to a Young Student Lively Art How to Talk to Actors Talks with Singers to be Trained as Actors Talks with Opera and Acting Students Opera Rules The Bond Between Music and Action Technique of the Creative Mood Physical Action as a Means to an End Talent, Inspiration and Professionalism Back to Work—The Beginning of the Season Back to Study—Talks with Established Actors The Life of a True Artist

Part Two “The Value of any art is determined by its spiritual content….”

After Ten Years in the Art Theatre On the Death of Tolstoy Chekhov’s Influence on the Art Theatre Memories of Chekhov Messages about The Cherry Orchard

Part Three “My System is the result of lifelong Searchings….”

On Reaching the Public Conversation in an Actor’s Dressing Room On Drama Criticism and Critics Why and When Play Melodrama? Young Actors in Mob Scenes What is the Grotesque? The Inner Pattern of the Role The Mysterious World of The Blue Bird On Playing Othello

Part Four “There is only one Method—that of organic, creative nature….”

The Theatre in Which the Playwright Is Paramount The Theatre in Which the Scene Designer Is Paramount An Argument with a Scene Designer The Art of the Actor and the Art of the Director

Part Five “Memories of the Past… Dreams of the Future….”

A Better Mousetrap A Theatre for All The View at Seventy

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