Beyond the Horizon
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Licensing Note
This title is in the public domain. No performance license is required.
Description
O'Neill's first Broadway play pits brother against brother for the heart of a woman. On a farm in Massachusetts two close brothers, Robert, a poet, and Andrew, a contented farmer, are both in love with Ruth, the beautiful farm girl next door. Robert is about to embark on the voyage of his dreams, but on the eve of his departure, Ruth declares her love for one brother over the other with heartrending consequences.
Production Info
Full Length Drama (about 140 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Press Quotes
“… an absorbing, significant, and memorable tragedy … a playwright of real power and imagination … the play has greatness in it and marks O’Neill as one of our foremost playwrights …” —Alexander Woolcott, Times
“Only once or twice in the course of the dramatic season does a play of such terrific force and such simple directness award the patient theatrical chroniclers …” —Robert Gilbert Welsh, Evening Telegram
“… this season’s most notable play of a serious theme and purpose by an American author …” —World
Author
Eugene O'NeillEugene Gladstone O'Neill was born in October 1888, in New York City. Widely considered America's foremost dramatist, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize four times and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936. His masterpiece, LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (produced posthumously in 1956), is at the apex of a long string of great plays, including BEYOND THE HORIZON (1920), ANNA CHRISTIE (1922), STRANGE INTERLUDE (1928), AH! WILDERNESS (1933), and THE ICEMAN COMETH (1946). O'Neill passed away at the age of 65 in November 1953.
Book Information
| Publisher | BPPI |
|---|---|
| Publication Date | 12/1/2000 |
| Pages | 184 |
| ISBN | 9780881451818 |
