Chorus Assignment

In your groups, please meet (for an hour--no need to labor over this!) and design a "modern chorus." What is the chorus we need today? Who should be, as Schiller tells us, the intermediary between the "actual world" and "the fantastical"? An ideal or spirit made sensuous and substantial? Or, as Aristotle tells us, moves us from what has happened to what might happen? You do not need to know the "drama" these figures are embedded in, but you should have an idea of where we would find them and why they are there. 

Come to class Tuesday 9/15 prepared to tell us:

• The kind of "personage" the chorus represents: Gender, Age, Species, Social Class, Social Function/Activity etc.
• Where are we? Why are we there? 
• How do they enter the stage? How do we, the audience "meet" them? (Thinking about the Furies: in what order should we learn things about them? Do these things contradict each other?)
• What is their first line or utterance? (what do they first say about themselves?)