Chorus, mask, ritualised movement and speech, and the Greek performance context

What this note covers

1. Greek performance context shapes convention and meaning
2. The chorus is a dramatic participant, not background decoration
3. Mask reorganises the performer’s body and the audience’s reading
4. Ritualised movement gives repeated action formal weight
5. Ritualised speech and messenger report make language performative
6. Worked transformation of a Greek choral moment
7. Worked choral transformation: a drought tribunal
8. Worked messenger reconstruction: the harbour fire arrives through bodies

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