Jesus, Hamlet, and the Culture of Kitsch
Thirty years ago, the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Jesus Christ Superstar launched the hit song “I Don’t Know How to Love Him,” chronicling ex-prostitute Mary Magdalene’s struggle to love Jesus in a chaste way. (Yes, I realize Mary was in all likelihood not a prostitute, but in the play she was.) Ten years ago, that play was revived on Broadway, this ti…
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