De Turkey and De Law
by Zora Neale Hurston
In the 1920s, Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes decided to collaborate on a play based on Hurston’s short story ‘The Bone of Contention’ and her anthropological research in Eatonville, Florida. For a number of reasons, the play was not completed (at least not collaboratively), and two very similar folk dramas emerged— Mule Bone by Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes and De Turkey and De Law by Zora Neale Hurston.
