- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
There is a certain irony to this statement, since Sartre knows his work and personality were already considered scandalous and indulgent in the public eye. But existentialism also literally is the “least scandalous” and “most austere” mode of thought in terms of its fundamental beliefs: whereas other philosophies have (according to Sartre, bad) faith in invisible metaphysical claims, Sartre sees atheist existentialists as especially resistant to believing anything people cannot reasonably believe based on their experience. This refusal to speculate beyond demonstrable truths is the despair that helps existentialists make more honest and practical decisions. Sartre is also careful to…