![]() "I felt an enormous responsibility to be as historically accurate as possible, while still telling the most dramatic story possible," Miranda told The Atlanticin 2015. Nonetheless, Miranda based the show on Ron Chernow's exhaustive 2004 biography of Hamilton, and hews fairly close to historical fact-with a few exceptions. ![]() The show is also peppered with references to real hip-hop history and even modern TV shows like The West Wing. It goes without saying that the style and vernacular of the show is deliberately anachronistic-the soundtrack draws heavily on hip-hop, R&B, pop and other musical genres that were not around in the Revolutionary era, and the characters speak in modern parlance, although their costumes are period-accurate. If you're one of the many, many people who flocked to Disney+ this July 4 weekend to watch the original Broadway production of Hamilton recreated onscreen, A) congrats, you're probably still on a high from the sheer joy of that experience, and B) you may be wondering just how much artistic license the show took with American history.
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