Contents:Conté: Part I. Scholarship -- Theorizing the chorus in Greece / Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi -- The Greek chorus: our German eyes / Simon Goldhill -- The middle voice: German classical scholarship and the Greek tragic chorus / Constanze Guthenke -- Chorus, song, and anthropology / Ian Rutherford. -- Part II. Aesthetics -- Greek festival choruses in and out of context / Felix Budelmann -- Seneca's chorus of one / Helen Slaney -- 'Something like the choruses of the ancients': the Coro stabile and the chorus in European Opera, 1589-1782 / Roger Savage -- 'An alien body'? Choral autonomy around 1800 / Joshua billings -- Brechtian chorality / Martin Revermann. -- Part III. Shadows -- The nostalgia of the male tragic chorus / Sheila Murnaghan -- A 'Senecan' theatre of cruelty: audience, citizens, and chorus in late-sixteenth and early seventeenth-century French dramas / Christian Biet -- Phantom chorus: missing chorality on the French eighteenth-century stage / Cecile Dudouyt -- Sunk in the 'mystic abyss': the 'choral' orchestra in Wagner's music dramas / Laurence Dreyfus -- 'How do you solve a problem like the chorus?' Hammerstein's Allegro and the reception of the Greek chorus on Broadway / Zachary Dunbar. -- Part IV. Community -- The politics of the mystic chorus / Richard Seaford -- Mob, cabal, or utopian commune? the political contestation of the ancient chorus, 1789-1917 / Edith Hall -- Choruses, community, and the Corps de ballet / fiona Macintosh -- Chorus and the Vaterland: Greek tragedy and the ideology of the choral performance in inter-war Germany / Eleftheria Ioannidou -- Revivals of choric theatre as utopian visions / Erika Fischer-Lichte -- Chorus in contemporary British theatre / Helen Eastman