Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three Plays: Lawing and Jawing; Forty Yards; Woofing | 2009 | Zora Neale Hurston | Buy |
| 2 | De Turkey an de Law | 2015 | Zora Neale Hurston | Buy |
| 3 | Spunk: A Play | 2016 | Zora Neale Hurston | Buy |
| 4 | Three Plays: Meet the Mamma, Color Struck and Spunk | 2022 | Zora Neale Hurston | Buy |
| 5 | Color Struck | 2022 | Zora Neale Hurston | Buy |
Zora Neale Hurston wrote plays throughout her career, though many were not published or widely performed until long after her death. Her dramatic works draw on the same folk traditions and African American community life that fill her fiction and anthropological writing.
Color Struck, one of her earliest plays, deals directly with colorism and intra-racial prejudice. Other works like Spunk adapt her short fiction for the stage. Several collected editions have appeared in recent years, making her theatrical writing more accessible to readers and scholars.