The Mule-Bone
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- Under 100
- First published
- 1931
- Pages
- 81
About this book
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.
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Book facts
- First published
- 1931
- Reading time
- About 80 minutes
- Pages
- 81
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Comedy
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online