Soyinka adds an additional Chorus to Euripides’ play. This Chorus consists of

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Question restatement: Soyinka adds an additional Chorus to Euripides’ play. This Chorus consists of
Options:
- slaves.
- the Bacchante-followers of Dionysus.
- The women of Thebes, led by Agave.

Option 1: slaves. This is presented as the correct answer. In Soyinka’s adaptation, he introduces an extra chorus composed of enslaved people, using their voice to comment on the events and to provide a social and political layer that contrasts with the actions of the main characters. This chorus serves to broaden the ethical and existential questions of power, oppression, and fate within the tragedy.

Option 2: the Bacchante-followers of Dionysus. In Euripides’ original Bacchae, the chorus already consists of the Bacchantes (the maenads), who are Dionysus’s female followers. Since the question notes that Soyinka adds an additional chorus, this option describes the existing chorus rather than the added one. Therefore, it does not identify the new Chorus Soyinka introduced.

Option 3: The women of Thebes, led by Agave. In the classical version, the Theban women (often led by Agave in the climactic scenes) are indeed part of the action and interact with the chorus, but they are not the separate, added chorus introduced by Soyinka. This option conflates established dramatic components with the newly added chorus, making it inaccurate as the specific addition described.

Synthesis and context: The prompt asks specifically about the newly added chorus in Soyinka’s adaptation. The key distinction is that Soyinka’s innovation is an extra, distinct chorus made up of slaves, rather than the pre-existing chorus of Bacchantes or the Theban women. Recognizing this helps separate an original structural element from Soyinka’s deliberate dramaturgical modification. The other two options refer to elements already present in Euripides’ text, not the newly introduced chorus. The reasoning shows why the slaves option correctly identifies Soyinka’s added chorus and why the other options do not describe the added component.

COM LIT 60A LEC A: WOR... Reading Comprehension Quiz #9 on Soyinka, The Bacchae of Euripides. A Communion Rite

Soyinka adds an additional Chorus to Euripides’ play. This Chorus consists of

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