The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress [web presentation]

Title

The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress [web presentation]

Date Created

Span: 1925-1944

Form

web presentation

Physical Description

Language

English

Abstract

This collection of Zora Neale Hurston plays includes a total 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 Deposited in the United States Copyright Office between 1925 and 1944, most of the plays remained unpublished and unproduced until they were rediscovered in the Copyright Deposit Drama Collection (a rich source of twentieth-century theatrical and cultural history) in 1997. The plays reflect Hurston's life experience, travels, and research, especially her study of folklore in the African-American South.

Subjects

African Americans in the Performing Arts

American Musical Theater

Theater

Women in the Performing Arts

Hurston, Zora Neale

Contents note

2 play scripts with musical content: "Meet the Mamma: A Musical Play in Three Acts” "Polk County: A Comedy of Negro Life on a Sawmill Camp with Authentic Negro Music in Three Acts”

Copyright link note

http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html

Repository

Manuscript Division, Library of Congress

Online Collection

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/znhhtml/znhhome.html

Collection

Performing Arts Encyclopedia