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CHORUS = [from the Greek 'dance']: originally the chorus was a group of performers at a religious festival, esp. fertility rites. Then Greek tragedy acquired these choral rites. The Chorus became an essential and integral part of Greek tragic drama. In the works of Aeschylus the chorus often took part in the action; in Sophocles it served as a commentator on the action; and in Euripides it provided a lyric element. The Romans copied the idea of a chorus from the Greeks, and Elizabethan dramatists took it over from the Romans.

_{Source: adapted from Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory by J.A.Cuddon, 1976, 3^rd edition.}