Method acting (Topical Term)

Work cat.: Strasberg, L. A dream of passion : the development of the method ... 1987.

Hennepin (Method acting; Stanislavsky method)

Trapido, J. International Dict. of Theatre Language, 1985 (The Method; Best-known U.S. version of the Stanislavsky System of acting)

Hull, S.L. Strasberg's Method, 1985: p. 327 (The Method; Originally another word for the Stanislavski system. More recently ... a type of actor training developed by Strasberg and others based on Stanislavski's definitions)

Ox. companion Am. theatre: p. 644, under Strasberg (Method school) p. 638, under Stanislavsky (Method technique)

Parke, L. Since Stanislavski and Vakhtangov : The method as a system for today's actor, 1985 (A system ... combining the many elements of the Stanislavski system, Vakhtangov's important contributions and later developments contributed by others ...)

Britannica 14, p. 107: under Acting.

Bowman, W. Theatre Language, 1961 (Method, the, see Stanislavsky System)

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Here are entered works on the psychological method used by actors to induce an emotion through consideration of a character's psychological motives and personal identification with the character, possibly including a reproduction of the character's emotional state. Works on the physical method used by actors to induce an emotion at will through the reproduction of the breathing, posture, and facial expressions unique to the emotion are entered under Alba emoting.

Note under Alba emoting