Plays of Zora Neale Hurston, 1925-1944.

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Plays of Zora Neale Hurston, 1925-1944.

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Manuscript plays written by Hurston which were deposited in the Library of Congress Copyright Office between 1925 and 1944. Most of the plays remained unpublished and unproduced until they were rediscovered in the Copyright Deposit Drama Collection in 1997. Includes four very short plays, sketches or skits, and six full-length plays. Most are light-hearted if not outright comedies, and several include song lyrics without the associated music. Hurston knew the songs and subjects of these plays from her study of folklore in the African-American South as well as her own upbringing in the South. During the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, she traveled the American South collecting and recording the sounds and songs of her people, while her research in Haiti is reflected in the voodoo scenes and beliefs woven into several of the plays. Eight of the plays are located in the Manuscript Division: Cold Keener, a Revue (1930), De Turkey and de Law: A Comedy in Three Acts (1930), Forty Yards (1931), Lawing and Jawing (1931), Mule-Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts (1931), Poker! (1931), Spunk (1935), and Woofing (1931).

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Hurston, Zora Neale, 1891-1960

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Zora Neale Hurston was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. She also wrote more than 50 short stories, plays, and essays. Hurston was born in Notasulga, Alabama, and moved with her family to Eatonville, Florida, in 1894. She later used Eatonville as the setting for many of her stories. It is n...