Richard Boleslavski THE WAY OF THE LANCER First Edition
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Richard Boleslavski THE WAY OF THE LANCER First Edition
First edition, first print hardback of WAY OF THE LANCER by Richard Boleslavski in collaboration with Helen Woodward and published by Cassell and Company Ltd., London, in 1932.The book is in good condition with only slight wear (some creasing and slight rubbing to the edges mainly around the spine and corners). Red boards with titles in black to the spine. There is no dust jacket. Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions. There is very slight tanning and some foxing to the pages/ page ends and an ex-libris plate on the back of the front board.
Ryszard Boleslavski (1889 1937) was a Polish film director, actor and teacher of acting. During World War I, Boleslavski fought as a cavalry lieutenant on the tsarist Russian side until the fall of the Russian Empire. He left Russia after the October Revolution of 1917 for his native Poland, where he directed his first movies. Boleslavski made his way to New York City, where, now known as "Richard", he began to teach what would become known as Method acting. In 1923, he founded the American Laboratory (Stage) Theatre in New York. Among his students were Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler and Harold Clurman, founding members of The Group Theater (1931-1940), the first American acting ensemble to put Stanislavski's theories into practice. Offered a contract to direct Hollywood films, he made several significant productions with some of the major stars of the day until his death.
The Way of the Lancer is Boleslavski's true personal account of when he served in the 1917 Russian war that saw Tsar Nicholas abdicate. The book brought immediate literary acclaim to Richard Boleslavski. It was variously called a work of genius, the best human document of the events preceding the Russian Revolution, a masterly narrative biography, a new writing of history. It was intensely dramatic, obviously the work of a mind trained in the theatre.
318 pages.
ISBN: n/a
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