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Life
1774-1830; b. Ireland [ODNB]; became a chemist; wrote poetry and drama; contributed to French and English journals; FRS [Edinburgh], & RIA, Dublin, 1810. ODNB RAF
References
Patrick Rafroidi, Irish Literature in English, The Romantic Period, 1789-1850 (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1980), Vol. 2; chemist, but cites Essay upon Nation Character, being an enquiry into some of the princ. causes which contribute to form and modify ... nations ... in the state of civilisation (1832); also, Dramatic Poems, Leonora, a trag. [5 acts], and Etha and Aidalle, a dram. poem (1802), and Two Plays, Mantuan Revels, com., and Henry the Seventh, hist. trag. No works performed. [NOTE more freq. var. ‘Leonara’.]
Peter Kavanagh, The Irish Theatre (1946); Richard Chenevix 1774-1830; Chemist, mineralogist; Dramatic Poems - Leonara, trag., and Etha and Aidallo, dram. poem (London 1802); two other plays, published 1812, Mantuan Revels, 5 act com.; Henry the Seventh, 5 act hist. trag., reviewed in Edinburgh Review, 1812; wrote imitation Shakespeare.
Quotations
Harrystotle: In “Leonara” (Dramatic Poems, p.83), Richard Chenevix criticises Shakespeare for failing to observe the three unities, but prefers him to Racine because he is more impassioned. (Cited in Patrick Rafroidi, Irish Literature in English, The Romantic Period, 1789-1850 (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1980, Vol. I., p.57.)
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