It is my interest that it should have been designed but I presume it was accidental. There was a most critical comma in your last letter. Alexander responded in a letter dated December 12, 1787, “You ladies despise the pedantry of punctuation. In a letter dated October 2, 1787, Angelica wrote, “Indeed my dear, Sir if my path was strewed with as many roses, as you have filled your letter with compliments, I should not now lament my absence from America.” If punctuation matters, Angelica has called Alexander ‘my dear’ which has a different meaning from ‘my dear Sir,’ which is how it would read without the comma. (The explanation of this song is turning out to be more of an English lesson than a History lesson….) Did you intend this?… It says: My dearest, Angelica, with a comma after dearest.” In real life, however, the author of this comma was reversed it was Angelica who placed the comma in the middle of a phrase and Alexander who questioned its intentions.
In this letter Angelica writes (sings), “ In a letter I received from you two weeks ago I noticed a comma in the middle of a phrase. Įliza attempts to get Alexander to “ take a break” and go upstate (to Albany, NY) to stay with her father for the summer, but he demurs, claiming he has “ so much on my plate.” In the meantime, a letter arrives from Angelica for Alexander. Before he was nine Philip already had two brothers, Alexander Junior (born in 1786) and James Alexander (born in 1788). Philip was born in 1782, and his sister, Angelica, was born in 1784. As part of Philip’s song he sings, “ I have a sister but I want a little brother.” Lin-Manuel Miranda seems to ignore siblings when convenient (he did the same with the Schuyler children). Hamilton’s letter-writing to Angelica (who is an ocean away) is interrupted by Eliza, who calls for him to come see his son Philip play piano on his ninth birthday. In the following scene a messenger comes to Macbeth to warn him, “I look’d toward Birnam, and anon, methought, the wood began to move.” And so Birnam Wood (Congress) is on its way to Dunsinane to vanquish Macbeth (Hamilton). In Act 5, Scene 4 of the play we see Macbeth’s enemies at Birnam Wood and “every soldier hew him down a bough and bear’t before him.” And just like that, Birnam Wood becomes cover for the soldiers as they approach Dunsinane. Too bad Macbeth took the words literally. In Act 4, Scene 1 it is said that “Macbeth shall never vanquish’d be until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill Shall come against him.” What the hell does that mean? It means that Macbeth believes he will never be vanquished, because he doesn’t see how the forest (Birnam Wood) could ever be uprooted and moved up the hill. ĭifferent scenes in Acts 4 and 5 of the play explain the final part of this quote. Macduff (Jefferson) is Macbeth’s (Hamilton’s) enemy.This is how we see Madison in the musical. Banquo is ambitious, but does not generally act upon his ambitions.Hamilton’s enemies think he will do the same. When Macbeth obtains the highest power, however, he rules as a tyrant.
Macbeth was a soldier, and a powerful man, as was Hamilton.Īs for Hamilton’s comparisons to the characters in Shakespeare’s play – The opening line here is taken directly from Shakespeare’s Macbeth as part of Macbeth’s soliloquy in Act 5, Scene 5.
Madison is Banquo, Jefferson’s Macduff, and Birnam Wood is Congress on its way to Dunsinane.” They think me Macbeth, and ambition is my folly I’m a polymath, a pain in the ass, a massive pain. I trust you’ll understand the reference to another Scottish tragedy without my having to name the play. “ Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day. Then Hamilton sings to his dearest Angelica with a spattering of Macbeth references: “Take a Break” opens with Eliza and Philip singing to nine in French (and then in English). This part will take us through Hamilton’s life as he worked to get that plan passed. We left off with Washington telling Hamilton that he needed to find a compromise to get his financial plan through Congress. Part twelve will cover songs twenty-six and twenty-seven: “ Take a Break” and “ Say No to This,” the steamiest song of the musical.
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