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| | The Chorus |
 | | The Chorus has been censured as an absurdity, inasmuch as, representing a crowd, it shows a secret transaction of the soul being carried on before the public--an objection which, of course, might be applied to the condemnation of the whole Tragic Drama, whereby the inmost agonies of contending souls are laid bare to crowded benches. |
 | | When that was a woman, the Chorus were dressed as women, except in the "Antigone," where splendid isolation sets the trials of the Protagonist against the background of stupendous grief. |
 | | The dialect of the Chorus which persisted was Doric--but a conventional Doric, and not the living patois; just as the Coptic prayers are embalmed in a tongue the very meaning of which is sealed even for the priests who read the liturgy. |
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