In ancient Greek drama, the chorus was a significant group of performers (usually 15 or 25), originally the main participants, whose singing and dancing played a major function in the production, either by commenting on or advancing the action of the major characters. Their performances took up...
[singular + singular or plural verb] (in ancient Greek drama) a group of performers who comment together on the events of the play [singular] (especially in sixteenth-century drama) an actor who speaks the opening and closing words of the play Word Origin Idioms in chorus ...
(in ancient Greek tragedy) a group of performers who comment together on the main action Sophocles no longer gave the chorus the major role Choral Of or pertaining to a choir or chorus; singing, sung, or adapted to be sung, in chorus or harmony. Chorus A device used with an amplified ...
This article attempts an analysis of Akira Kurosawa's 1990 Yume (Dreams) based on the idea that each one of the eight episodes that the film depicts have got a group of people (or animals) that seems to be the equivalent of the ancient Greek theatre chorus. Thus,...
Greek Theater The Ancient Greek theatre started flourishing towards the end of the Archaic Era and fully developed during the Classical period, mainly in the city – state of Athens. Although it initially had a particularly religious and mystical character, it soon became a means of communicating ...
a discussion of possible narratives in the representational contents of the depicted Komast and Satyr dances; and a wide-ranging essay that ultimately identifies the self-referentiality of the chorus as the "medium that makes Greek theatre... Davis,B C. - 《Tdr the Drama Review》 被引量: 3...
Dunbar, Z. 2013, ‘How Do You Solve a Problem like the Chorus?’ Hammerstein’sAllegroand the Reception of the Greek Chorus on Broadway’, in J. Billings, F. Budelmann & F. Macintosh (eds),Choruses, Ancient & Modern, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 243–58. ...
The Greek Tragedy was the child direct of the Greek Epic. It made the story stand out in a sort of bas-relief. It lifted the curtain of the gods, showed the hidden cords which moved events, revealed the progress of the invisible, and always with a bias on the side of good. Hence,...
Sophocles' Tragedy of Philoctetes In The Light of Aristotle's Poetics Besides his philosophical discussions on ethics, aesthetics and politics; Aristotle, one of the most prominent philosophers of Ancient Greek, also examines... S Zinan - 《Medeniyet Sanat Dergisi》 被引量: 0发表: 2022年 SOPHOCLE...
Science, Music and Theatre: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Singing Tragic Chorus of Greek Tragedy This thesis argues for the relevance of the history of Science, and its natural corollaries of music and space, in order to understand the chorus and its historical and cultural interconnections...