As well as similarities as regards the type of buildings used, there were similarities in the subject matter of the plays: Spanish literature was translated into English in Shakespeare*s time, and in 1613 his company mounted a lost play called Cardenio which appears to have been based on an episode in Don Quixote. Although Shakespeare was not translated into Spanish until the eighteenth century, _his_ work has since been performed in the corrales; for example in 2016, which saw the quatercentenary of the deaths of Cervantes and Shakespeare, there were Shakespearean productions in Amalgro and Alcal* de Henares. <sep>, Pronoun: his <sep>, A: Don Quixote <sep>, B: Cervantes