The mule-bone

by Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston

About

"The Mule-Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts" by Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston is a play written in 1930. In the town of Eatonville, Florida, two best friends—one a guitarist, the other a dancer—come to blows over the affections of a woman. When one strikes the other with a mule bone, a trial divides the community along religious lines, forcing the town to debate an unusual question: can a mule bone be considered a weapon?

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The mule-bone

Characters: 65
Words: 12.6k
Scenes: 3
Duration: ~1 hr 35 min

Characters

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1

JIM

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100

2

DAISY TAYLOR

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86

3

DAVE

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75

4

LIGE

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43

5

JOE CLARK

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43

6

WALTER THOMAS

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34

7

HAMBO

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30

8

MRS. HATTIE CLARK

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28

3 sections

12.6k words

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1

Act ONE

7.9k59:32

2

Act TWO

1.9k14:03

3

Act THREE

2.8k21:16

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