Beyond the Horizon

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Beyond the Horizon by Eugene O'Neill

Act I Scene I→

Information about this edition 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.

TO AGNES

NEW YORK: BONI & LIVERIGHT: 1920

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.)

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1923. It may be copyrighted outside the U.S. (see Help:Public domain).