It is clearly based on the "Cardenio" episode in Don Quixote; current scholarly consensus is that the play is an 18th-century rewriting of the lost Cardenio by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher.
It is clearly based on the "Cardenio" episode in Don Quixote. The play is an 18th-century rewriting of the lost Cardenio by William Shakespeare. The play is an 18th-century rewriting of the lost Cardenio by John Fletcher. Current scholarly consensus is this.