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Aristoteles was the first to mention about this gender, he wrote some shorts stories about it.
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There are some short texts that show a little bit about this gender, but we do not know about the specific date when drama appeared.
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It was written by Nicholas Udall. "roister Doister"
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It was one of the greatest authors in the world, during his life he wrote important stories in drama gender like "Pericles" and "The tempest".
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Different texts have been written using this gender of writing.
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There is a poem "Samson Agonistes" written in 1671 that express tragedy and since then, there have been written some stories using this gender.
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It does not have a specific date but in the XVIII century appeared this gender.
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English literature first enters the university in Scotland under the label of "Rhetoric and belles Lettres"
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English Literature in the nineteenth- century universities became instead a way of connecting yourself to the past.
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University College London began teaching language and literature.
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King’s College London started the class with a professor too.
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One of the representatives universities started with a professor for English language and literature.
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Trinity College Dublin was the first college to start with a professor for language and literature.
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It was created by Cambridge university as an examination board in "Medieval and modern languages" which included English as one of its topics.
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It was stablished by Oxford University.
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Cambridge University reply to Oxford with a different career.
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Some university teachers, of whom I. A. Richards and F. R. and Q. D. Leavis at Cambridge were the most influential, saw the rise of ‘mass civilization’ as a threat to what they called ‘culture’.
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American Literature began to be taught; American teachers developed an approach to studying literature which was immediately chris-tened ‘the New Criticism’: the best known New Critics being John Crowe Ransom, Cleanth Brooks, William K. Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley.
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For Hugh Blair, for the nineteenth- century professors, for the Cambridge people in the twenties and thirties, and for the New Critics in the 1940s, there was no question about this: some texts, and some types of writing, were just better than others.
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It was in the 1960s that a shift in the nature of literary studies began which remains the context in which English Literature is taught in universities today.
