Is the Chorus an Ideal Observer?

Nita: The historical fact that the chorus came first kind of makes nonsense of the idea that the chorus could be the ideal spectator, because what are they there to spectate if originally they were the totality of the play a? And so further down. He says, we had always believed that the right spectator, whoever he might be, must always remain conscious that he was viewing a work of art and not an empirical reality. But the tragic chorus of the greeks is forced to recognize real beings in the figures on stage. Could the highest and purest type of spectator regard prometheus as bodily present and real, as the oceanides do? Is it characteristic of the ideal spectator to