One of Shakespeare's lost works, a collaboration with John Fletcher, was the History of Cardenio which is believed to have been based on a section of Don Quixot

One of Shakespeare's lost works, a collaboration with John Fletcher, was the History of Cardenio which is believed to have been based on a section of Don Quixote. Don Quixote was quite popular in English so it's kind of exciting to think of Shakespeare reading Don Quixote.