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Does a public-domain English translation of Stanislavski contain the 'super-objective' and 'units and objectives' vocabulary, and if not, what does it say about a role's inner action and will?

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Negative result with partial substitute. The lawful public-domain translation found here (J. J. Robbins, My Life in Art, 1924, read in a 1938 printing) does not contain the terms super-objective, objective, unit or through-line (0 hits in the whole OCR text after normalisation). It does record Stanislavski's earlier language: an 'inner line' of a play, 'inner action', 'real necessity for action' and an inner technique 'based on the process of will'. The 'Units and Objectives' and 'The Super-Objective' chapters belong to An Actor Prepares (Hapgood translation, 1936), which a lending-library scan shows but whose rights are not open; it was not quoted. Whether an openly licensed or public-domain translation of the later system books exists remains unresolved.

Negative result with partial substitute. The lawful public-domain translation found here (J. J. Robbins, My Life in Art, 1924, read in a 1938 printing) does not contain the terms super-objective, objective, unit or through-line (0 hits in the whole OCR text after normalisation). It does record Stanislavski's earlier language: an 'inner line' of a play, 'inner action', 'real necessity for action' and an inner technique 'based on the process of will'. The 'Units and Objectives' and 'The Super-Objective' chapters belong to An Actor Prepares (Hapgood translation, 1936), which a lending-library scan shows but whose rights are not open; it was not quoted. Whether an openly licensed or public-domain translation of the later system books exists remains unresolved. Curator qualifications: All excerpts located; whether a PD English Stanislavski contains super-objective/units terms (as found). Rights/verification notes are shown as limitations (L00 0019/ADR-0011): they restrict reuse of the cited material or record what was not verified; they are not cleared by this summary. Limitations: [component_reuse_restriction] Translation rights per source; check edition status. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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      "url": "https://archive.org/download/mylifeinart00stanrich/mylifeinart00stanrich_djvu.txt",
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  • [sourced_fact] Negative result with partial substitute. The lawful public-domain translation found here (J. J. Robbins, My Life in Art, 1924, read in a 1938 printing) does not contain the terms super-objective, objective, unit or through-line (0 hits in the whole OCR text after normalisation). It does record Stanislavski's earlier language: an 'inner line' of a play, 'inner action', 'real necessity for action' and an inner technique 'based on the process of will'. The 'Units and Objectives' and 'The Super-Objective' chapters belong to An Actor Prepares (Hapgood translation, 1936), which a lending-library scan shows but whose rights are not open; it was not quoted. Whether an openly licensed or public-domain translation of the later system books exists remains unresolved. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts source

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