1. World of drama The kind of play The physical world of the play
The central theme
Characters defined
Plot
Sources
Style
Outstanding feature of the play

2. The kind of drama
One has to recognize the importance of ‘placing’ a play in the generic sense.
It is important to explain in the beginning of any analysis that the play does belong to the type known as…..(kind of drama, example : Restoration Comedy etc)

3. The physical World of the Play
It would be futile to enter immediately into a discussion of the play without some brief explanation of the physical world in which it takes place.
First of all explaining the location. It has symbolic or historical significance
By placing the play in time and space we are clarifying the larger world with which the playwright is concerned

4. The central Theme
Every play has one dominating idea which we call the theme
This is the significance of any drama and that dimension of the artist’s labor which outlives entertainment value

5. Characters defined
Part of any first general definition of a drama should refer to the major characters in a literal and informative manner
That is, we should briefly note that the play has a certain number of characters.

6. Plot
We should present a brief synopsis of the major action of the drama in question so that the characters’ relationships will become clarified by reference to the main events of the play

7. Sources
A less significant but nevertheless essential part of any opening definition of a drama is some sort of reference to the source of the drama
That is we should at least insert parenthetically or in apposition the place where the play story was probably discovered

8. style
A definition should at least some mention , however brief, of the basic style of the play.

9. Outstanding feature of the play
If there is some one aspect of the entire play. In either construction, meaning, or style, it should be separately noticed and emphasized accordingly. In many plays no one aspect will be so dominant that it needs to be especially noticed.