Performance and Entertainment

Digital collections that fall within the John Hay Library’s Performance and Entertainment STRATEGIC COLLECTING DIRECTION. Here you will find digitized materials that document the history and creative process of performing arts and provides a window into public life and popular entertainment in the Americas through plays, dance, film, music, photography, and pornography.
This collection is part of Brown University Library, hosted by Brown University.

Items in this collection

Dirge

Dirge

Brown University

Mock-solemn poem about the burial of a textbook, the History of Greece. Mock-solemn poem about the burial of a textbook, the History of Greece. To be sung to the tune: Laban, or Boylston. Poem in five four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Dirge

Dirge

Brown University

Mock-solemn poem about the burial of a textbook, the History of Greece. Mock-solemn poem about the burial of a textbook, the History of Greece. To be sung to the tune: Laban, or Boylston. Poem in five four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Director of alienation

Director of alienation

Brown University

Ferlinghetti. French-folded; poem on verso to be read unfolded. Title inscribed on hat of drawing of face of bearded man wearing hat. Cover title. Poem within single-line border.

Ding, dong, bell!

Ding, dong, bell!

Brown University

[illustrations by] Geraldine Clyne. Cover title. First line same as title. Opens to a pop-up scene of two boys, cat and well with accompanying verse; cover has boy pulling cat from well, watched by another boy.

Dine and Joe

Dine and Joe

Brown University

written & composed for the Ethiopian Minstrels and sung by them with rapturous applause at their principal concerts. For voice, chorus (STAB) and piano. Cover title.

Dilemma

Dilemma

Brown University

Printed on green paper.

Different people

Different people

Brown University

Printed on beige paper. At head of text: For Aram. At end of text: shortshop 1. 1 of 150 copies.

Dieses Gedicht zum verkaufen fuer die Wohlthat eines blinden Mannes: This poetry for sale for the benefit of a blind man

Broadsheet printed on heavy violet paper. German text on recto and English on verso. Poem in four numbered four-line stanzas and final stanza requesting money. English text begins: Kind friends, I'm blind; I cannot see. Clumsiness of rhymes in German version and existence of several English-only broadsides indicate original was in English. Suggested place and date of publication from dealer.

Dies irae: Zeph. I:15. II. Peter III : 7

Poetry attributed to Thomas of Celano printed on ivory silk. At end of text: Thomas of Celano. Tr. Abraham Coles, M.D., 1847; below, beneath single rule, "This version, regarded by the literary world as the best in the English language .. In lower margin colophon: M.E. Munson, Publisher, 77 Bible House, New York.

Dies irae: Revelation VI : 12-17

Poetry attributed to Thomas of Celano printed on ivory silk. At end of text: Thomas of Celano. Tr. Abraham Coles, M.D., LL.d. 1857; below, beneath single rule, excerpt of John G. Whittier's praise of Abraham Coles as hymn writer. In lower margin colophon: M.E. Munson, Publisher, 77 Bible House, New York.

Dies irae

Dies irae

Brown University

Printed on silk ribbon fringed at top and bottom. Latin poem in 17 three-line stanzas and final four-line stanza. Type-signed at end of poem: Thomas de Celano. Colophon at end: M.E. Munson, Publisher, 77 Bible House, New York. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.