c1940 The Art of the Actor

Description

Rebound, Very Scarce

Translated from the original Russian by Herbert Marshall, a British film and theatre director, scholar and translator of Soviet literature.

A translation of Soviet theatre-scholar Iosif Rapoport's work of writing on acting and the role and 'art' of the actor.

This work is best known for its inclusion as a chapter in the 1955 anthology 'Acting: A Handbook of the Stanislavski Method'.

This typed publication of Rapoport's essay was produced for the New Theatre Play Service, and priced at 2/-.

A handwritten leaf to the rear copies out quotations on acting from Richard Boleslawski, a Polish theatre and film director, actor and teacher of acting.

Undated; dated circa 1940 via the publisher's dates of operation.

Rebound in cloth, with endpapers renewed. With the bookplate of book collector Cliff Parfit to the front pastedown, and the inscription of M. Futegal to the title page head.

First published in English in 1936, and vanishingly scarce in all editions.