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The Mule-Bone

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First published: 1931
Pages: 81

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Written together by two giants of the Harlem Renaissance, this comedy unfolds in the all-Black town of Eatonville, Florida, where two friends and fellow musicians fall out over a woman named Daisy. When one man knocks the other flat with the hock bone of a mule, the whole town takes sides, splitting neatly along the lines of its two churches for a hearing that becomes as much a performance as a trial. Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston filled the play with folk speech, humor, and song, though a bitter quarrel over authorship kept it off the stage in their lifetimes. Free PDF and EPUB editions are available here.

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Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston

This play joins two towering figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Langston Hughes (1901-1967) was a celebrated poet and chronicler of Black American life, while Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) was a novelist and anthropologist, author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, who collected the folklore of the rural South.

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