The aim of this paper is to analyse Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton: An American Musical in terms of its approaches to storytelling and narration. A selection of songs will be analysed focusing on their narrative traits and the figure of the narrator, including its (un)reliability. It will be argued that the songs in Hamilton can be classified depending on their approaches to storytelling, including examples of narration to the audience, confessional monologues, epistolary narration, or scenes based on dialogue/conversations. An analysis of who tells Hamilton’s story will be relevant to understand the whole show, for it is also concerned with issues of legacy and remembrance.
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