Culture · 6 pages · 12 min
How a chorus worked in Greek drama
The chorus sang and danced as a group that had a stake in the play.
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From the opening
In classical Greek drama the chorus was a group of performers who sang, danced, and spoke as a collective between the acted episodes and sometimes inside them. They were a body on stage with a point of view, not a narrator added later to explain the plot to a reader. The opening covers what the chorus does between scenes, why the group has a limited view, and how dance belonged to the form.
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Inside
- What the chorus does between scenes
- Why the group has a limited view
- How dance belonged to the form
- When later plays thin the role
- Where the idea stops applying
- A distinction worth keeping
Sources
- The chorus of fifth-century Greek tragedy
- Aristotle on treating the chorus as part of the action