The Tragic Chorus
0In The Birth of Tragedy, Friedrich Nietzsche explored the notion that Greek Tragedy arose out of the 'Tragic Chorus'. This chorus may represent the audience or the spectator of an ancient Greek play, and more broadly of theater and art general.
But what does the Chorus really mean and represent as a concept and does it have an empirical reality?
Is there an ideal spectator of significance aside from the mass of spectators who watch a play? Is it reasonable to idealize the audience like that and what is the difference between the ideal and the reality?
How does this relate to simulation theory?
Is the suspension of disbelief in a story comparable to the veil of forgetting?
This was a reading from Friedrich Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy. This version of the text was translated by Shaun Whiteside, edited by Michael Tanner and published by the Penguin Group, London (among other places), in 1993.