The only collaboration betweenLangston HughesandZora Neale Hurston,The Mule-Boneis a three-act comedy depicting the romantic rivalry between two lifelong friends, Jim Weston and Dave Carter, as they both try to woo the same woman, Daisy Taylor. Set in the town of Eatonville, Florida (Zora Neale Hurston’s hometown and the setting of her novelTheir Eyes Were Watching God), the play humorously explores the interpersonal and religious conflicts in an early 20th-century African-American...