Composers and their stage works 



Paul Vincent Carroll

(1900 - 1968). Irish dramatist; born Blackrock, County Louth 10 July, 1900: died Glasgow 20 October, 1968

PLAYS

  1. The Watched Pot. Produced, Abbey Theatre's Peacock Theatre, 1930.
  2. Things That Are Caesar's. Produced Abbey Theatre, 1931
  3. Farewell to Greatness. A play about Jonathan Swift. A revision in
    the 1950s televised on BBC.
  4. Shadow and Substance. Written 1934. Produced Abbey Theatre,
    Jan. 25, 1937
  5. The Coggerers. (Later retitled The Conspirators). Published 1939.
    Produced Abbey Theatre, Nov. 1937.
  6. The White Steed. Written 1938. Published 1939. Produced Cort
    Theatre, New York, Jan. 10, 1939.
  7. The King Who Could Not Laugh. Published 1939.
  8. His Excellency-The Governor. Published 1939.
  9. St. Francis and the Wolf. Published 1939.
  10. Beauty Is Fled. Published 1939.
  11. Death Closes All. Published 1939.
  12. Maker of Roads. Published 1939.
  13. Kindred. Written 1939.
  14. The Old Foolishness. Written, 1940. Published 1944. Produced
    London Arts Theatre, May 5, 1943.
  15. The Strings, My Lord, Are False. Written, 1942. Published in 1944.
    Produced Olympia Theatre, Dublin, Mar. 16, 1942.
  16. The Wise Have Not Spoken. Written, 1944. Published 1947. Pro duced, in London, 1944.
  17. Interlude. Published 1947.
  18. The Chuckeyhead Story. Written, 1950. Produced Pavilion Theatre,
    Bournemouth, Oct. 9, 1950. Revived as The Devil Came from Dublin. Pub lished 1958. Produced 1953.
  19. Green Cars Go East. Written 1951.
  20. The Wayward Saint. Published 1955.
  21. Goodbye to the Summer. Published 1970.
  22. We Have Ceased to Live. Published 1972.

CRITICISM

P. A. Doyle, Paul Vincent Carroll, 1971; The Journal of Irish Literature (whole issue devoted to Carroll), 1972.