Hamilton Editors & Elizabeth Ayme
Hamilton Editors
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda & Okieriete Onaodowan & Leslie Odom Jr. & Daveed Diggs
Lin-Manuel Miranda & & Sasha Hutchings & Ariana DeBose & Carleigh Bettiol & Thayne Jasperson & Sydney James Harcourt & Jon Rua & Seth Stewart & Ephraim Sykes
Lin-Manuel Miranda & Anthony Ramos & Phillipa Soo
BET & ?uestlove & Lin-Manuel Miranda & Black Thought & Renée Elise Goldsberry & Daveed Diggs
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda & Anthony Ramos & Phillipa Soo
Lin-Manuel Miranda & Stephen Colbert
Lin-Manuel Miranda & Alexandra Silber & Melanie Moore &
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Kurt Crowley & Leslie Odom Jr.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Renée Elise Goldsberry & Jasmine Cephas Jones & Phillipa Soo
Lin-Manuel Miranda & Christopher Jackson & Daveed Diggs & Okieriete Onaodowan
Lin-Manuel Miranda & & Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton & Renée Elise Goldsberry & Daveed Diggs & Anthony Ramos & Okieriete Onaodowan & Leslie Odom Jr.
Lin-Manuel Miranda & James Corden & Okieriete Onaodowan & Daveed Diggs & Anthony Ramos & Leslie Odom Jr.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton & Lin-Manuel Miranda & Jasmine Cephas Jones & Lexi Lawson & Renée Elise Goldsberry
Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton & Jasmine Cephas Jones & Lexi Lawson & Renée Elise Goldsberry
Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton & Jasmine Cephas Jones & Lexi Lawson & Renée Elise Goldsberry & Anthony Ramos & Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda & Lorne Michaels
Lin-Manuel Miranda & Renée Elise Goldsberry & Lin-Manuel Miranda
Black Thought & Ja Rule & Ashanti & Regina Spektor & Andra Day & Lin-Manuel Miranda & ?uestlove & Joell Ortiz
Lin-Manuel Miranda & Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda & Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda & Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda & Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda & Lin-Manuel Miranda
Genius Users & Broadway Genius
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Unknown Artist
Some of the ideas in Hamilton are big. They weave their way through the show, showing up in one place then another, transforming, foreshadowing, calling back. Sometimes, they are too big to fit into any particular song’s annotations. That’s what this page is for. Here, we collect themes and motifs t...
Production Motifs
Dual casting
Chronological rearrangement
Race-bent casting
Lyrical Motifs
Story & Narrative
"Who lives, who dies, who tells your story"
Alexander writing his way in/out
Eliza's place in "the narrative"
Burr as narrator
Hamilton v. Burr
Throwing away [my/your/his] shot
"Talk less, smile more"
"Wait for it"
"Rising" ("standing") and "falling"
"Satisfied"
"Helpless"
Hamilton & Eliza: "Look around, look around..." / "Enough"
Burr/Hamilton misunderstandings and questions
"Out____"
Fathers & sons—religious, founding, paternal, biological
Chess
Immigrants (gets the job done)
Christian religious imagery and characterization
Eyes and faces
"Hey..."
Musical Motifs
Character Motifs
"Alexander Hamilton"
"Angelica"
"Eliza"
"Aaron Burr, Sir"
Hip hop vs. other musical forms