Described by The Oxford Companion to Theatre as "essential for all aspiring actors," The Craft of Comedy is witty and exceptionally astute. In a series of letters written to a young man eager to learn from her wealth of experience, Seyler draws on her performances in Restoration Comedy, Shakespeare, Wilde, Maugham, Shaw, and Rattigan. The result is a classic work on the art and craft of comedy, as important in its own way as works by Stanislavski, Chekhov, or Gordon Craig.