The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at The Library of Congress
The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at The Library of Congress present a selection of ten plays written by Hurston (1891-1960), author, anthropologist, and folklorist. Deposited in the United States Copyright Office between 1925 and 1944, most of the plays remained unpublished and unproduced until they were rediscovered in the Copyright Deposit Drama Collection in 1997. The plays reflect Hurston's life experience, travels, and research, especially her study of folklore in the African-American South. Totaling 1,068 hundred images, the scripts are housed in the Library's Manuscript, Music, and Rare Books and Special Collections Divisions. [From The Library of Congress web site, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/znhhtml/znhhome.html]
De Turkey and de Law: A Comedy in Three Acts
Meet
the Mamma: A Musical Play in Three Acts
The
Mule-Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts
Polk
County: A Comedy of Negro Life on a Sawmill Camp with Authentic Negro
Music in Three Acts
