The War Like Harry and the Chorus

What is the role of the chorus in relation to the events that he or sometimes she reports? Should we see the chorus as a kind of embedded fox reporter spinning the news from the battlefield as he brings it to the public? Is the chorus a figure of history and historical process itself? If we look at some of the ways in which the chorus has been represented on the stage, we can bring out some of these tensions. In that phrase the war like Harry, the chorus introduces its admiring intimate view of King Henry. Even the use of the diminutive form of his name works to bring us closer to him and to suggest a particular access to him.