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The Mule-Bone
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The Mule-Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life is a play written in 1930 by Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes. It is a lighthearted, folk-based comedy set in an all-Black Southern town. The play was meant to celebrate Black vernacular speech, humor, and community dynamics, but it was never staged during Hurston and Hughes' lifetimes due to a bitter feud between them over authorship.
The play was finally produced in 1991 at the New York Public Theater.
The play is set in the all-Black town of Lint...