What does the chorus contribute to Seneca’s play Thyestes? Or, Critically comment on the significance of the chorus in Seneca's Thyestes.

 

What does the chorus contribute to Seneca’s play Thyestes? 

Or,

Critically comment on the significance of the chorus in Seneca's Thyestes.

The relationship between the choruses of Seneca's tragedies and the action of the plays in which they occur is one of the least understood and most controversial aspects of the Roman dramatist's work. It is often asserted that Seneca's choral odes are mere act-dividers, that their relationship with the play's action is loose and unconvincing. Similarly the role of the chorus in Seneca’s tragedy Thyestes is absolutely unique in the theatre of classical antiquity, and this is because they remain wholly ignorant until the fourth act, when a messenger explains to them what had happened thus far, notably Atreus’ plot to feed Thyestes his children. In a conventional sense, an ignorant chorus is useless, as the traditional and conventional Greek chorus is an omniscient narrator and is thus an invaluable tool for the writer; he needn’t be unsubtle for the sake of the audience, as the chorus will periodically explain what has happened and what is happening.

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