Founder profile
Alexander Hamilton
1755–1804
Fifth on the composite at 0.25, one step above Madison after the false-positive audit. Zero strict catalogue references and zero Shakespeare-only character invocations. The 1779 'spice of Julius Caesar or Cromwell' line was the v1 Roman exception; the strict Shakespeare-only standard sets it aside as classical, not Shakespearean.
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Catalogue references(0 direct + 0 by-name)
27
Candidate echoes (MED+)(2,112 including LOW)
0
Shakespeare-only invocations(1 Roman-ambiguous, not scored)
36%
Archaic forms surviving
In summary
Hamilton ranks fifth on the composite at 0.25, one step above Madison after the false-positive audit. His 2.21 million words contain zero HIGH or MEDIUM catalogue references and zero Shakespeare-only character invocations under the strict standard. The candidate-echoes tier surfaces 2,112 short matches, with only 27 in the MEDIUM-or-HIGH band — the smallest absolute count of the six. The 1779 letter to John Laurens comparing General Lee to 'a little spice of Julius Caesar or Cromwell' was a v1-era Roman thematic hit for him, but Caesar paired with Cromwell is two historical strongmen invoked together, and Plutarch reaches both names independently — under the strict Shakespeare-only standard the line is set aside as classical, not Shakespearean. An 1801 paraphrase of a Macbeth line used as partisan rhetoric against Jefferson sits below the catalogue's confidence threshold. The Hamilton Silence essay walks through what the absence means for the wider argument: his Federalist Papers, Treasury reports, and political journalism are written in the Continental Enlightenment and British constitutional registers, not the English-literary register that produced Adams's prose.
Metaphor signature
His metaphor fingerprint
Per-million rates across eight conceptual-metaphor families. Red is his profile; blue dashed silhouette is Shakespeare’s for comparison.
Alexander Hamilton
Eleven measures
How he ranks across the project’s eleven measures
Lower number = more Shakespearean. Compare with other Founders →
Plays referenced
Which Shakespeare plays appear in his catalogue
None at the catalogue’s HIGH or MEDIUM confidence threshold. Alexander Hamilton’s engagement with Shakespeare, if any, lives below the catalogue: in vocabulary, archaic-form survival, and metaphor profile rather than in named or quoted reference.