Stanislavski's Legacy Book

	Foreword to the Second Edition
	Editor's Foreword
Pt. 1	"In art you do not command, you persuade ..."
	The Long-Hoped-for Child	3
	What Shall We Learn?	5
	The Hard Job of Being an Actor	9
	Types of Actors	13
	On Being Truthful in Acting	20
	Acting Looks Easy	21
	An Actor Is a Teacher of Beauty and Truth - Letter to a Young Student	27
	Lively Art	29
	How to Talk to Actors	30
	Talks with Singers to be Trained as Actors	31
	Talks with Opera and Acting Students	32
	Opera Rules	40
	The Bond Between Music and Action	43
	Technique of the Creative Mood	45
	Physical Action as a Means to an End	46
	Talent, Inspiration and Professionalism	48
	Back to Work - The Beginning of the Season	49
	Back to Study - Talks with Established Actors	73
	The Life of a True Artist	76
Pt. 2	"The Value of any art is determined by its spiritual content ..."
	After Ten Years in the Art Theatre	79
	On the Death of Tolstoy	80
	Chekhov's Influence on the Art Theatre	81
	Memories of Chekhov	84
	Messages about The Cherry Orchard	123
Pt. 3	"My System is the result of lifelong Searchings ..."
	On Reaching the Public	129
	Conversation in an Actor's Dressing Room	133
	On Drama Criticism and Critics	135
	Why and When Play Melodrama?	138
	Young Actors in Mob Scenes	148
	What is the Grotesque?	153
	The Inner Pattern of the Role	157
	The Mysterious World of The Blue Bird	159
	On Playing Othello	162
Pt. 4	"There is only one Method - that of organic, creative nature ..."
	The Theatre in Which the Playwright Is Paramount	171
	The Theatre in Which the Scene Designer Is Paramount	175
	An Argument with a Scene Designer	178
	The Art of the Actor and the Art of the Director	182
Pt. 5	"Memories of the Past ... Dreams of the Future ..."
	A Better Mousetrap	197
	A Theatre for All	198
	The View at Seventy	203
	Index	208