[Hardy-l] Greek chorus

Betty Cortus hardycor at owl.csusm.edu
Fri Oct 12 09:26:56 PDT 2007


On Oct 12, 2007, at 8:09 AM, Rosemarie Morgan wrote:

>
>         "Wishing it to be thoroughly English I have dropped the  
> name of Chorus for the conventional onlookers, and called them  
> Chanters, though they play the part of a Greek chorus. I have also  
> made them ghosts (I don't for the moment recall an instance of this  
> in a Greek play).. "

Quite coincidentally Rosemarie, I went to a production of Sophocles'   
Electra last Sunday.  In this particular version the ghost of  
Iphigenia came back as a member of the chorus.
Betty
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