Greek Chorus
Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A Greek chorus (Greek: , khoros) is an homogenous, non-individualised group of performers in the plays of classical Greece, who comment with a collective voice on the dramatic action. It numbers twelve or fifteen members in tragedies and twenty-four members in comedies, and performs using several techniques, including singing, dancing, narrating, and acting. In Aeschylus' Agamemnon, the chorus comprises the elderly men of Argos, whereas in Euripides' The Bacchae, they are a group of eastern bacchants, and in Sophocles' Electra, the chorus is made up of the women of Argos. Plays of the ancient Greek theatre always included a chorus that offered a variety of background and summary information to...
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