Lin-Manuel Miranda shares footage of eighth-grade Macbeth play

Miranda’s admiration of Macbeth has remained lifelong. Shakespeare’s play even gets a shout-out in the Hamilton song “Take a Break” (I trust you’ll understand the reference to another Scottish tragedy without my having to name the play / They think me Macbeth, and ambition is my folly / I’m a polymath, a pain in the ass, a massive pain / Madison is Banquo, Jefferson’s Macduff / And Birnam Wood is Congress on its way to Dunsinane”).