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One of the things I took from that Tolkien essay is some of the difference between story & myth. It's exaggerated and too blunt, but roughly: a culture has a plethora of stories; myths, by contrast, have cultures.
And much of the detailed difference between story and myth lies in this quality of subcreation. (Reading Tolkien on his beloved Christianity and Catholicism reinforces this point, I believe.)
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I _am_ exaggerating - or caricaturing - of course. Still, I've found it a very useful way of thinking.
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You mean that every generation can add to a story - but every generation *reinterprets* myth as it is? This would make Hamlet a myth.
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Something like that. I think the idea is sufficiently interesting & generative that I don't _want_ to reduce it to a tweet, or a single essay. But, yes, to a large extent our culture has been made by Hamlet (or by the Bible, or Star Wars, etc).
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(We also should bear in mind that the canonisation of texts and stories is so much more chaotic and never-ending process than we like to think. Homousion was debated ad inf., Homer was a group, Hamlet was a ripoff of another play, etc. Printing, universities canonise.)
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*homoousion
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