Constantin Stanislavski

An Actor Prepares is the first of Konstantin Stanislavski's books on acting, followed by Building a Character and Creating a Role. Stanislavski intended to publish the contents of An Actor Prepares and Building a Character as a single volume, and in the Russian language. However, An Actor Prepares was first published …

Building a Character is Constantin Stanislavski's second book on acting. It was first published in Russian in 1948, and a translation by Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood was published with this English title by Theatre Art Books, New York, in 1949.

My Life in Art is the autobiography of the Russian actor and theatre director Constantin Stanislavski. It was first commissioned while Stanislavski was in the United States on tour with the Moscow Art Theatre, and was first published in Boston, Massachusetts in English in 1924. It was later revised and published in a …