It irritates me that Shakespeare gets so much credit for opening up existentialism. This is only a phenomenal idea to the aristocracy which is used to getting their way so much that they don't even have much human condition to acknowledge in the first place.

Literature history isn't that great. It's really just a bunch of rich people who thought they were better than everybody else, but then when literature was eventually opened up to the poor and middle class, it was improved in ways far beyond what aristocrats ever did in a fraction of the time.