Mule Bone is a comic play in three acts, written by Hurston with the poet Langston Hughes. It is set in an all-Black Florida town much like Eatonville. Two friends, a guitar player and a dancer, fall out over a woman and bring their quarrel before the townspeople, who argue it with great energy. The play draws on folk tales and porch-talk humor. A dispute between the authors kept it from the stage for decades, and it was only published long after it was written.