Shakespeare, in some sense, helped create the modern man, didn't he, his influence is that pervasive

Shakespeare, in some sense, helped create the modern man, didn't he, his influence is that pervasive. He held the mirror up to nature, but he also created that mirror: so the image he created is the very one we hold ourselves up to.
----Jess Winfield, My Name Is Will: A Novel of Sex, Drugs, and Shakespeare