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    Method Acting came from Russia but is a truly American rendering of the work of Constantin Stanislavski.  There are three main method teachers, Strasberg, Meisner and Adler.  The best books on Method Acting are as follows:

    A Dream of Passion - by Lee Strasberg
    Sanford Meisner on Acting - by Sanford Meisner
    Method Acting - Dwight Easty
    Method Acting Reconsidered - David Krasner (ed)
    Strasberg at the Actors Studio - Robert Hethmon
    Respect for Acting - by Uta Hagen
    The Art of Acting - by Stella Adler
    No Acting Please - by Eric Morris
    The Great Acting Teachers and their Methods - Richard Bresthoof
    A Method to their Madness - Foster Hirsh
    The Complete Stanislavsky Toolkit - by Bella Merlin

    Books that might be considered critical of the Method

    Acting without Agony - Don Richardson
    True and False - by David Alan Mamet
    The End of Acting - by Richard Hornby

    Those are the best books to read, of course there exists still many nonsense books on acting that can't help you but will take your money thanks very much!
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