This handbook is a companion volume to Stanislavski's three teaching books, An Actor Prepares, Building a Character and Creating a Role. It is a selection of articles, speeches, notes and memoirs written between 1898, when the Moscow Art Theatre opened, and his death in 1938. Among the items are a series of letters on the interpretation of Othello, the long and affectionate article Memoirs of Chekhov and a final section in which Stanislavski envisages the theatre and actors of the future.