I found King George (though hilarious) a bit of a straw man because he was so obviously an American caricature of Britons.
That's exactly what's weird about it. Are we supposed to understand "You'll Be Back" as a sort of exemplar of Hamiltonian and/or American polemic against King George, but not actually representing the real King, or as some sort of actual character narrative about King George that's just overly simplistic, or some combination of the two? What is its function in the narrative, why does Miranda insert it at this moment in time?
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Date: 2020-08-05 07:04 pm (UTC)That's exactly what's weird about it. Are we supposed to understand "You'll Be Back" as a sort of exemplar of Hamiltonian and/or American polemic against King George, but not actually representing the real King, or as some sort of actual character narrative about King George that's just overly simplistic, or some combination of the two? What is its function in the narrative, why does Miranda insert it at this moment in time?