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Name: The Mule-Bone
Author: Langston Hughes

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Drama

The only collaboration betweenLangston HughesandZora Neale Hurston,The Mule-Boneis a three-act comedy depicting the romantic rivalry between two lifelong friends, Jim Weston and Dave Carter, as they both try to woo the same woman, Daisy Taylor. Set in the town of Eatonville, Florida (Zora Neale Hurston’s hometown and the setting of her novelTheir Eyes Were Watching God), the play humorously explores the interpersonal and religious conflicts in an early 20th-century African-American...

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CHAPTERS

Dramatis Personae

Jim Weston: Guitarist, Methodist, slightly arrogant, agressive, somewhat self-important, ready with his tongue. Dave Carter: Dancer, Baptist, soft, happy-go-lucky character, slightly dumb and unable t...

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Act 1

Setting: The raised porch of Joe Clark’s Store and the street in front. Porch stretches almost completely across the stage, with a plank bench at either end. At the center of the porch three steps lea...

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Act 2

Setting: Village street scene; huge oak tree upstage center; a house or two on backdrop. When curtain goes up, Sister Lucy Taylor is seen standing under the tree. She is painfully spelling it out. Sis...

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Act 3

Setting: A high stretch of railroad track thru a luxurious Florida forest. It is near sundown. Action: When the curtain rises there is no one on the stage, but there is a tremendous noise and hubbub o...

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Endnotes

Loins. ↩...

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