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Essay Galaxy - Medea And The Chorus As you have learned, Greek drama evolved from the ritualistic performances of a chorus at the Dionysian festivals. After the actor Thespis

stepped out of the chorus and began a dialogue with it, other characters soon followed, and the chorus's role gradually diminished in size (from fifty members to fifteen) and importance. Playwrights kept the chorus as a significant element in their dramas, but its functions were necessarily more limited. Robinson Jeffers, who translated Medea, has also retained the chorus, but has modified its mature slightly. Instead of having it speak in unison, he has assigned speeches to individual members. Nevertheless, the chorus still plays a prominent part and fills the traditional functions of a chorus in Greek tragedy. Many of these functions were merely technical. For example, the chorus often announced the e....

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