Sign-In
Cart
The Mule-Bone
Paperback
Publisher Price: $12.95
ISBN13: 9781636521930
Publisher: Black Legacy Press
Published: Dec 18 2025
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.21 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Mule-Bone is a landmark theatrical work by Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston that captures the humor, conflict, and cultural richness of African American life in the early twentieth-century American South. Centered on a courtroom dispute sparked by a simple mule bone, the play explores themes of justice, community authority, folklore, and social tradition.
Written in vibrant dialect and rooted in Black folk culture, the play blends comedy and social commentary while preserving the rhythms and storytelling traditions of rural Southern communities. The Mule-Bone stands as an important collaboration between two major figures of the Harlem Renaissance and remains a valuable contribution to American drama and cultural history.
This work is well suited for readers interested in African American literature, drama, folklore, and the study of early twentieth-century American theater.
3 different editions
Also available
Also from
Hughes, Langston
Let America Be America Again: Conversations with Langston Hughes
de Santis, Christopher C.
Hughes, Langston
Hardcover
Three Poets of the Harlem Renaissance: Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and Countee Cullen
Johnson, Georgia Douglas
Hughes, Langston
Cullen, Countee
Audio Book
Also in
Plays
Four Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew, a Midsummer Night's Dream, the Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night
Shakespeare, William
Paperback
The Major Plays: Ivanov, the Sea Gull, Uncle Vanya, the Three Sisters, the Cherry Orchard
Chekhov, Anton
Paperback
Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem
Miller, Arthur
Paperback
The Greek Tragedies: Seventeen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Euripides
Paperback
The Laramie Project and the Laramie Project: Ten Years Later
Kaufman, Moises
Fondakowski, Leigh
Pierotti, Greg
Paperback
FRANKENSTEIN or The Modern Prometheus (The Revised 1831 Edition - Wisehouse Classics)
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Paperback
Four Major Plays: A Doll's House/Ghosts/Hedda Gabler/The Master Builder
McFarlane, James
Arup, Jens
Ibsen, Henrik
Paperback
A Doll's House and Other Plays: With Pillars of the Community, Ghosts and an Enemy of the People
Ibsen, Henrik
Paperback
KJV, Pew Bible, Large Print, Hardcover, Burgundy, Red Letter Edition (Large Print Edition)
Thomas Nelson
Hardcover
Our Town and the Cosmic One-Acts: The Long Christmas Dinner, the Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden, and Pullman Car Hiawatha
Wilder, Thornton
Paperback
Five Plays: Ivanov, the Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and the Cherry Orchard
Chekhov, Anton
Hingley, Ronald
Paperback