Further to yesterday's post, in which I quoted from Stephen Orgel's excellent introduction to the Oxford Tempest, I would like to add two points for consideration. The first is that Shakespeare was certainly aware of the importance of collaborators in getting his work out there in front of people to do what it should, i.e. to communicate. And these collaborators included his sources, his playwright colleagues, his actors and fellow theater professionals, and his audiences, all of whom, the evidence shows, were held in high regard by Shakespeare. The second is that although it could be argued that drama itself, a form of expression which by its very nature requires high levels of participation and interpretation, deserves as much credit as Shakespeare for the creativity that his work has inspired in others, I would simply contend that it would be difficult to imagine the passage in question being written about any other writer. In other words, the openness, the possibilities, the necessity of interpretation are not in his work by accident.