This is a repository copy of The Importance of How : Directing Shakespeare with Michael Chekhov's Technique. White Rose Research Online URL for this paper: http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/75318/ Version: Published Version Article: Cornford, Tom orcid.org/0000-0003-4336-7382 (2012) The Importance of How : Directing Shakespeare with Michael Chekhov's Technique. Shakespeare Bulletin. pp. 485-504. ISSN 1931-1427 https://doi.org/10.1353/shb.2012.0065 Reuse Items deposited in White Rose Research Online are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved unless indicated otherwise. They may be downloaded and/or printed for private study, or other acts as permitted by national copyright laws. The publisher or other rights holders may allow further reproduction and re-use of the full text version. This is indicated by the licence information on the White Rose Research Online record for the item. Takedown If you consider content in White Rose Research Online to be in breach of UK law, please notify us by emailing
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[email protected] https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/ Access Provided by University of York at 01/15/13 3:31PM GMT The Importance of How: Directing Shakespeare with Michael Chekhov’s Technique TOM CORNFORD University of York ‘‘What’ is important, but ‘how’ is much more important.’ Michael Chekhov (cited in Hurst du Prey 1977, 191) Michael Chekhov was an actor, director, teacher and philosopher of the theatre. He trained with Stanislavsky before developing his own studio in Moscow and rising to become Artistic Director of the Second Moscow Art Theatre.