ABSTRACT
Charles Marowitz's biography, The Other Chekhov: A Biography of Michael Chekhov, the Legendary Actor, Director and Theorist, was published shortly afterwards in 2004. Lenard Petit's The Michael Chekhov Handbook For the Actor is a well-informed and accessible book which is structured around the aims, principles, tools and applications of the technique. Petit doesn't believe that there is only one 'right' way of teaching the Chekhov Technique. Anthroposophy and Rudolf Steiner are often implicitly or explicitly margin-alised in discussions of Chekhov's work and, as Neil Anderson pointed out, this extends to some of own work. The most important academic volume that has been published in English on the Chekhov work is The Routledge Companion to Michael Chekhov a four-hundred-page collection of twenty-five essays written by a range of Chekhov scholars and edited by Marie-Christine Autant-Mathieu and Yana Meerzon. The Companion covers a wide range of topics and its range and scholarship is unlikely to be surpassed for some time to come.
