What is the importance of the chorus in Greek drama?

i’m reading Mourning Becomes Electra

Its the collective voice of humanity and represents the thoughts of the audience. They also explain whats going on

History of Theatre / Theater 1 – From Ritual to Theater / Ancient Greek Theater

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The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles’ Antigone $2.98 Sophocles’ play, first staged in the fifth century B.C., stands as a timely exploration of the conflict between those who affirm the individual’s human rights and those who must protect the state’s security. During the War of the Seven Against Thebes, Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, learns that her brothers have killed each other, having been forced onto opposing sides of the battle. When Creon…

Seven Against Thebes & Prometheus Bound $0.99 “Seven Against Thebes” which was performed in 467 BC, picks up a contrasting theme, that of fate and the interference of the gods in human affairs. The play tells the story of Eteocles and Polynices, the sons of the shamed King of Thebes, Oedipus. The sons agree to alternate in the throne of the city, but after the first year Eteocles refuses to step down, and Polynices wages war to claim his crow…

Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece: Their Morphology, Religious Role and Social Functions (Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches) $45.18 In this groundbreaking work, Claude Calame argues that the songs sung by choruses of young girls in ancient Greek poetry are more than literary texts; rather, they functioned as initiatory rituals in Greek cult practices. Using semiotic and anthropologic theory, Calame reconstructs the religious and social institutions surrounding the songs, demonstrating their function in an aesthetic education t…