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.
Don Quixote
Cervantes