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Beyond the Horizon (1920)
by Eugene O'Neill

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

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BEYOND THE HORIZON

PLAYS BY

EUGENE G. O’NEILL


THE MOON OF THE CARIBBEES
and Six Other Plays of the Sea

CHRIS CHRISTOPHERSON

BEYOND THE HORIZON

A PLAY IN THREE ACTS

BY

EUGENE G. O’NEILL

BONI AND LIVERIGHT

PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK

Copyright, 1920,
By BONI & LIVERIGHT. Inc.

Printed in the United States of America

TO AGNES

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 sons of James Mayo
Robert 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.)


This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.


The longest-living author of this work died in 1953, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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