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De Turkey and De Law; A Comedy in Three Acts

By Zora Neale Hurston

2019-11-07 02:34:52

SETTING: A Negro village in Florida in our own time. All action from viewpoint of an actor facing audience. PLACE: Joe Clarke's store porch in the village. A frame building with a false front. A low porch with two steps up. Door in center of porch ... Read more
SETTING: A Negro village in Florida in our own time. All action from viewpoint of an actor facing audience. PLACE: Joe Clarke's store porch in the village. A frame building with a false front. A low porch with two steps up. Door in center of porch. A window on each side of the door. A bench on each side of the porch. Axhandles, hoes and shovels, etc. are displayed leaning against the wall. Exits right and left. Street is unpaved. Grass and weeds growing all over. TIME: It is late afternoon on a Saturday in summer. Before the curtain rises the voices of children are heard, boisterous at play. Shouts and laughter. Less

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File size65.408 KB
Print pages100
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1434687968
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Zora Neale Hurston
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Zora Neale Hurston (Jan 7, 1891 – Jan 28, 1960) was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hood...

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