Here is a selection of titles added to the catalogue in the past week.

 A night out ; Night school ; Revue sketches : early plays /by Harold Pinter. A night out is the story of a young man who tries to break his ties with his mother ; Night school is a drama of interlocking subterfuge ; the Revue sketches are portraits of ordinary people.

Andersen’s English /Sebastian Barry. In this play, celebrated children’s writer Hans Christian Andersen arrives, unannounced, for a stay at  the home of Charles Dickens and his large, charismatic family.  To the lonely and eccentric guest, the members of Dickens’ household seem to live a life of unreachable bliss. But with his broken English, Andersen doesn’t at first see the storms brewing within the family: undeclared passions, a son about to go to India, and a growing strangeness at the heart of Dickens’ marriage.

 Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte. An international journal which publishes articles relating to aspects of early modern European religious life and thought that touch on the Reformation and Catholic/Counter Reformation movements. The journal is also concerned with the extension of European theology and practice into the extra-European world. Its chronological range is approximately 1450-1650.

 Authoritarian containment: public security bureaus and Protestant house churches in urban China /Marie-Eve Reny. In Authoritarian Containment, Reny examines why local public security bureaus tolerate unregistered Protestant churches in urban China–an officially atheist country where religious practice is controlled by the state–when the central government considers them illegal. She also notes that other authoritarian regimes have employed a similar strategies to control the activities of informal religious organizations.

  Betrayal /Harold Pinter.  The play begins in 1977, with a meeting between adulterous lovers, Emma and Jerry, two years after their affair has ended. During the nine scenes of the play, we move back in time, through the states of their affair, with the play ending in the house of Emma and Robert, her husband, who is Jerry’s best friend.

Boston marriage /David Mamet.  A droll comedy of errors set in a Victorian drawing room. Anna and Claire are two bantering, scheming “women of fashion” who live together on the fringes of society. As the two women exchange barbs and taunt their hapless maid, Claire’s inamorata arrives and sets off a crisis that puts both a valuable emerald and the women’s future at risk. Mamet brings his trademark tart dialogue and impeccable plotting, spiced with Wildean wit, to this wickedly funny comedy.

 Christianity, Islam and liberal democracy: lessons from Sub-Saharan Africa /Robert A. Dowd. Based largely on research conducted in Nigeria, and to a lesser extent on other parts of sub-Saharan Africa, this book points to qualitative and quantitative data to suggest that Christian and Islamic religious communities tend to become more conducive to actions and attitudes compatible with liberal democracy in religiously diverse and integrated settings than in religiously homogeneous settings or religiously diverse settings that are highly segregated along religious lines.

 Compleat female stage beauty /by Jeffrey Hatcher. In this play, set in 1661 the most famous portrayer of female roles on the London stage was a performer named Kynaston. Like every other player permitted to enact such roles, Kynaston was a man. A celebrity artist shining bright at the crest of the Restoration.

 Dinner with friends /by Donald Margulies. This drama starts with two married couples have been best friends for years. In their Connecticut home, Karen and Gabe, international food writers, are giving a dinner for Beth and Tom, which he doesn’t attend. It emerges from the heartbroken Beth that he has left her for another woman.

Dracula /by Steven Dietz. Following the spirit of the novel, much of Dietz’s play presented in a series creepy narrative, many of which are derived from letters and journal entries.

Early music. The journal for anyone interested in early music and how it is being interpreted today. Contributions from scholars and performers of international standing explore every aspect of earlier musical repertoires, present vital new evidence for our understanding of the music of the past, and tackle controversial issues of performance practice.  New discoveries of musical sources, instruments, and documentation are regularly featured, and innovatory approaches to research and performance are explored, often in collections of themed articles.

Ecumenica.  Ecumenica: Performance and Religion attends to the combination of creativity, religion, and spirituality in expressive practice. A peer-reviewed journal, Ecumenica regards performance and religion as overlapping and often mutually-constituting categories, preferring no particular form of creative expression, and privileging no particular religious tradition. The journal’s very aim is to consider the variety of modes in which creative and religious impulses might be realized.

End of summer,a play in three acts. Behrman, S. N. (Samuel Nathaniel)

  Ephemerides theologicae Lovanienses [electronic resource]. A quarterly publication by professors of Theology and Canon Law at the KU Leuven and the Université catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve). As a peer-reviewed and internationally distributed journal, it publishes articles, notes and comments, and reviews (in English, French, German) on all aspects of theology and canon law for an academic readership.

Faith & economics.  A peer-reviewed academic economics journal . It contains academic articles, surveys, and book reviews that offer fresh perspectives from the Christian tradition on topics and fields in economics, and offers articles and reviews on topics of particular interest to economists with affinities for the Christian tradition.

 Frederick Henry Koch, pioneer playmaker: a brief biography, by Samuel Selden and Mary Tom Sphangos. With notes by Jonathan Daniels [and others]  Selden has compiled a thoroughly enjoyable little book of memorabilia in tribute to his predecessor as chairman of the drama department at the University of North Carolina. There is a brief biography by Mr. Selden and Mary Tom Sphangos, a chapter of notes on “Folk Playmaking” by  Koch himself, and a long section of “reminiscences and appraisals” by  prominent former students which completes the evaluation of a great teacher. An intriguing story of a revered theatre worker is told with simplicity and affection.

 Glengarry Glen Ross: a play /by David Mamet. Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize, Mamet’s scalding comedy is about small-time, cutthroat real estate salesmen trying to grind out a living by pushing plots of land on reluctant buyers in a never-ending scramble for their fair share of the American dream. Here is Mamet at his very best, writing with brutal power about the tough life of tough characters who cajole, connive, wheedle, and wheel and deal for a piece of the action — where closing a sale can mean a brand new cadillac but losing one can mean losing it all.

 In the shadows of Naga insurgency: tribes, state, and violence in India’s northeast /Jelle J.P. Wouters. This title is a fine-grained critique of the Naga struggle for  political redemption, the state’s response to it, and the social corollaries and carry-overs of protracted political conflict on everyday life.

James’s Daisy Miller: the story, the play, the critics.

Journal for the study of Paul and his letters. Pauline research has long needed its own dedicated journal as a specific conduit for Pauline research as it is broadly practiced. The Journal for the Study of Paul and His Letters (JSPL) fills this need in every respect, presenting cutting-edge research for scholars, teachers, postgraduate students, and advanced undergraduates related specifically to study of the Apostle Paul and cognate areas.

 Lord Pengo: a comedy in three acts /by S.N. Behrman ; suggested by his New Yorker series, The days of Duveen. The life and times of an art dealer of the 1930s whose fortune lay in his knack for convincing the rich that they should invest in Old Masters.

Medieval French plays. Translated by Richard Axton and John Stevens. Le jeu d’Adam.–La seinte resureccion.–Le jeu de Saint Nicolas, by J. Bodel.–Courtois d’Arras.–Le miracle de Theophile, by Rutebeuf.–Le garcon et l’aveugle.–Le jeu de la feuillee, by A. de la Halle.–Le jeu de Robin et de Marion, by A. de la Halle

 Moonlight /Harold Pinter. Set in two bedrooms and an indefinite dark space, Moonlight is the story of a father on his deathbed, rehashing his youth, loves, lusts, and betrayals with his wife, while simultaneously his two sons – clinical, conspiratorial, the bloodless, intellectual offspring of a hearty anti-intellectual – sit in the shadows, speaking enigmatically and cyclically, stepping around and around the fact of their estrangement from their father, rationalizing their love-hate relations with him and the distance that they are unable to close even when their mother attempts to call them home. In counterpoint to their uncomprehending isolation between the extremes of the death before life and the death after is their younger sister, Bridget, who lightly bridges the gaps between youth and age, death and life.

Orestes and Electra: myth and dramatic form .Edited by William M. Force.

Our American cousin: Tom Taylor’s comedy classic in a new version /by Lowell Swortzell

 Plays and manifestos /by Richard Foreman ; edited and with an introd. by Kate Davy.

Portmanteau plays, by Stuart Walker; ed., and with an introduction by Edward Hale Bierstadt.

Prince of players: Edwin Booth. 

 Reunion ; Dark pony: two plays /by David Mamet. Reunion depicts the awkward, tender meeting between a father and daughter drawn together by their loneliness after twenty years of separation.In the short vignette Dark Pony, a father tells a favorite bedtime story to comfort his young daughter as they drive home late at night.

Revue de Qumrân. A leading international journal dedicated to the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the significance of these manuscripts for our understanding of the Ancient Near East in the Hellenistic and Roman period. It concerns ancient Jewish or Christian literature, history, archaeology and epigraphy.

 Shakespeare quarterly.  A leading journal in Shakespeare studies, publishing highly original, rigorously researched essays, notes, and book reviews. The essays in our published pages span the field, including scholarship about new media and early modern race, textual and theater history, ecocritical and posthuman approaches, psychoanalytic and other theories, and archival and historicist work. Our mission, simply put, is to present the best scholarship on Shakespeare from his own period to the present moment.

The cup of trembling: a play in two acts /by Eizabeth Berryhill. Suggested by and with material derived from the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

 The dictator’s dilemma: the Chinese Communist Party’s strategy for survival /Bruce J. Dickson, George Washington University. In The Dictator’s Dilemma, eminent China scholar Bruce Dickson explains in highly accessible prose why the Communist Party regime has survived and prospered, despite constant predictions of its weakening and demise.

The journal of theological studies [electronic resource].

 The love suicide at Amijima (Shinjū ten no Amijima): a study of a Japanese domestic tragedy /by Chikamatsu Monzaemon ; [study by] Donald H. Shively. The classic study of the famous play by one of the most prominent Japanese playwrights has lost none of its appeal in the last half century. This monograph is divided in two parts, the first being a long introduction to the play, and the second a new translation of the original text supplemented with copious end notes.

 The musical quarterly. The Musical Quarterly, founded in 1915, has long been cited as the premier scholarly musical journal in the United States. Over the years it has published the writings of many important composers and musicologists and focuses on the merging areas in scholarship where much of the challenging new work in the study of music is being produced.

 The passing of the third floor back: an idle fancy in a prologue, a play, and an epilogue /by Jerome K. Jerome.

The schooldays of Jesus /J.M. Coetzee. The haunting sequel to The Childhood of Jesus, continuing the journey of David, Simon, and Ines. David is the small boy who is always asking questions. Simon and Ines take care of him in their new town, Estrella. In this mesmerizing allegorical tale, Coetzee deftly grapples with the big questions of growing up, of what it means to be a parent, the constant battle between intellect and emotion, and how we choose to live our lives.

 The shawl ; and, Prairie du Chien: two plays /by David Mamet. The Shawl, which opened to critical and popular acclaim, is about a smalltime mystic out to bilk a bereaved woman out of her inheritance. In Prairie du Chien a railroad car speeding through the Wisconsin night is the setting for a violent story of obsessive jealousy, murder, and suicide punctuated by the camaraderie of a friendly card game exploding into a moment of menace.

 The Tibetan Book of the Dead: a way of life /directed by Yukari Hayashi, Barrie McLean ; produced by Atsunori Kawamura, Barrie McLean, David Verrall This two-part series explores ancient teachings on death and dying. It was filmed over a four-month period on location in the Himalayas where the original text still yields an essential influence over people’s views of life and death. The Dalai Lama explains his own feelings about death, while other scenes within a palliative care hospice in San Francisco depicts the use of the texts to counsel dying AIDS patients.

 The western historical quarterly. original articles dealing with the North American West—expansion and colonization, indigenous histories, regional studies (including western Canada, northern Mexico, Alaska, and Hawaii), and transnational, comparative, and borderland histories. Each issue contains reviews and notices of significant books, as well as recent articles, in the field.

Theatre journal. One of the most authoritative and useful publications of theatre studies available today. Drawing contributions from noted practitioners and scholars, Theatre Journal features social and historical studies, production reviews, and theoretical inquiries that analyze dramatic texts and production.

 Triage: Dr. James Orbinski’s humanitarian dilemma /directed by Patrick Reed ; produced by Peter Raymont, Silva Basmajian, Silva Basmajian. Orbinski, accepted the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) as their President, and was a field doctor during the Somali famine, the Rwandan genocide, among other catastrophes. Having seen the best and worst of humanitarian assistance and of humanity itself, Orbinski embarks on his most difficult mission to date – writing a deeply personal and controversial book that struggles to make sense of it all Triage is an 88-minute feature film by the creative team behind the award-winning documentary Shake Hands with the Devil

 Uyghurs: prisoners of the absurd /National Film Board of Canada. Edited like a thriller, with multiple twists and turns, this film charts the fascinating, painful odyssey of three victims of the war on terror and the economic war between the United States and China. This incredible tale is both thought-provoking and moving, with absurdist overtones–another politically engaged, humanist documentary from Patricio Henríquez.