The document provides an overview of key conventions and elements to consider when analyzing dramatic texts, using Sophocles' play Oedipus Rex as an example. It discusses conventions like language, body language, structure, dialogue vs monologue, setting, conflict, and characters. For Oedipus Rex specifically, it summarizes the play's plot about Oedipus unknowingly fulfilling a prophecy that he will kill his father and marry his mother, which builds dramatic tension. The document also covers Greek theater traditions and the concept of catharsis in tragic plays.

1. Introduction to Drama by. M. Wilson World Literature Texts Oedipus Rex by Sophocles The House of Bernarda Alba by F.G.Lorca