But honestly, I don't like the presentation of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson in Sandman #75. There's too much projection of modern writers' anxieties over their own originality, which is simply not a worthnoting issue for the early modern writers. What did Jonson and Shakespeare would fear in their real lives? The death of family members, the decline of fames, and the loss of patrons. Things like that, yet lack of originality or creativity was not one of them. That one never disturbed them. When Jonson disliked some pieces in Shakespeare's work, he simply would say "the monologue's too long" or "it's mouldy". He would never ever attack or mock on Shakespeare's originality, nor would him tease Shakespeare on that one. I understand that all adaptations are new works using old materials to tell their own stories. It's just that the Shakespeare&Jonson like that are unsatisfying for me.