Double Falshood

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Double Falshood; or, The Distrest Lovers (sometimes erroneously listed as "The Double Falshood") is a play by Lewis Theobald, first produced on December 13, 1727 at the Drury Lane Theatre and published in 1728, which he claimed to have based on three manuscripts dating from the time of the English Restoration of an unnamed lost play by Shakespeare. 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.