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Jesus, Hamlet, and the Culture of Kitsch

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Mar 18, 2010
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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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