O’Neill, Eugene. 1920. Beyond the Horizon

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Ruth has suffered—and for your own sake and hers—remember, Andy—only through sacrifice—the secret beyond there—— The sun! Remember!

Eugene
O’Neill

Beyond the Horizon

Eugene O’Neill

Beyond the Horizon explores what happens when two men love the same woman and the compromises each will make to have her. Eugene O’Neill won the Pulitzer Prize for this 1920 drama.

CONTENTS

Bibliographic Record

TO AGNES

NEW YORK: BONI & LIVERIGHT: 1920
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 1999

Act I

Scene I: The Road. Sunset of a day in Spring.

Scene II: The Farm House. The same night.

Act II
(Three years later)

Scene I: The Farm House. Noon of a Summer day.

Scene II: The top of a hill on the farm overlooking the sea. The following day.

Act III
(Five years later)

Scene I: The Farm House. Dawn of a day in late Fall.

Scene II: The Road. Sunrise.

CHARACTERS

JAMES MAYO, a farmer

KATE MAYO, his wife

CAPTAIN DICK SCOTT, of the bark "Sunda," her brother

ANDREW MAYO and

ROBERT MAYO, sons of James Mayo

RUTH ATKINS,

MRS. ATKINS, her widowed mother

MARY,

BEN, a farm hand

DOCTOR FAWCETT.

(The "right" and "left" of the stage directions are the audience’s.)

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