Toward a Historicism of Setting: <i>Hamilton</i> and American History
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Abstract
This essay analyses the historical setting of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton: An American Musical, using the play as a test case for a more general approach to historical drama. It suggests that Hamilton structures itself around a familiar, publicly available set of narratives of early American history, playing off the audience’s likely awareness of these narratives to deepen its emotional impact. Hamilton’s engagement with this familiar history activates the dissonance of the musical’s cross-racial casting and hip-hop aesthetic in order to produce what Miranda has called “a story about America then, told by America now,” simultaneously celebrating and critiquing the past. Based on this analysis of Hamilton, I argue for engaging with other historical plays through their settings, with careful attention to what a contemporary audience might have known or understood about the periods depicted.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it