This study is a scrutiny investigative approach on T. S. Eliot's complex dramaturgical development and progress in the implementation of a very olden dramatic practice. It is the operational of the chorus in Eliot's verse dramas. This analysis is the third continuous effort to track the treatment that he employs in dealing with the chorus from antiquity to a modern approach. The study tries to pursue the procedure of Eliot in using the chorus in his dramas, tracing the progress Eliot reached

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... h particular reference to his two final plays The Confidential Clerk and The Elder Statesman as Case in Point. The study uses descriptive-analytical and critical methodology. It begins with a brief outline of Eliot and his theoretical views on the merits and demerits of the chorus in drama. Then the task moves ahead to examine and analyze Eliot's usage of the chorus in The Confidential Clerk. Later, the work moves to the next part that explores the play The Elder Statesman. The study ends with discussion, conclusion, and recommendations if there is any. English Drama was first created in sacred and pious incantation, supplication, invocation, dance, and other ceremonial services. Therefore, the chorus was an imperative personality who proved energetic to drama. The chorus is a -performing part of the act; he was engaged in that collaboration of the audience with the artist which is necessary in all art and most obviously in dramatic art [5]‖. The ancient drama drew upon the spiritual instincts of all individuals. It found its language and speech in the chanting of the ministers, presbyters, priests, clerics, of the church, and warriors. It reproduced the religions of numerous countries as they found the influence of drama in edifying ethical, moral, holy, and religious values. Steadily this art formula extended into what people call the play.