Matthew Concanen
Matthew Concanen (1701 – 22 January 1749)[1] was an Irish writer, poet and lawyer.
Life
Concanen studied law in Ireland but travelled to London as a young man, and began writing political pamphlets in support of the Whig government. He also wrote for newspapers including the London Journal and The Speculatist. He published a volume of poems, some of which were original works and some translations. He wrote a dramatic comedy, Wexford Wells, staged at Dublin's Smock Alley Theatre. A collection of his essays from The Speculatist was published in 1732.
His skills attracted the attention of the
He criticized
An Essay Against Too Much Reading
The 1728 humorous
The author proposed "a short account of Mr Shakespeare's proceeding, and that I had from one of his intimate acquaintance..."
Writings
In 1731 Concanen, Edward Roome, & Sir William Yonge produced The Jovial Crew, an opera, adapted from Richard Brome's A Jovial Crew.
His publications included
- Wexford Wells (1719)
- Meliora's Tears for Thyrsis (1720)
- A Match at Football (1720)
- Poems on Several Occasions (1722)
- Miscellaneous Poems (1724)
- Miscellaneous Poems and Translations (1726)
- A Supplement to the Profound (1728)
- The Speculatist (1730)
- A Miscellany on Taste (1732)
- Review of the Excise Scheme (1733).[2]
He was co-author of The history and antiquities of the parish of St. Saviour's, Southwark.
References
- ^ 1812 Chalmers' Biography / C / Matthew Concanen (?–1749) (vol. 10, p. 134)
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004
- ^ David Erskine Baker, in Companion to the Play-House (1764) 2: Sig. G5v.
- ^ Shakespeare Quarterly Page 319; by Folger Shakespeare Library, Shakespeare Association of America, 1952
- ^ Wadsworth. The poacher from Stratford, p. 9-10. The identification derives from "A Speech to Royal Highness, the Princess Amelia on her Birth-day" by Goulding, which is bound in the same volume.
- ^ a b Reginald Charles Churchill, Shakespeare and His Betters: A History and a Criticism of the Attempts which Have Been Made to Prove that Shakespeare's Works Were Written by Others; Indiana University Press, 1959
- ^ George McMichael, Edward M. Glenn Shakespeare and His Rivals, pg 56
- ^ Ivor John Carnegie Brown; William Shakespeare; Morgan-Grampian Books Ltd., 1968
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