The prospect of finding Prester John had long since vanished, but the tales continued to inspire through the 20th century. William Shakespeare's 1600 play "Much Ado About Nothing" contains an early modern reference to the legendary king, as does Tirso de Molina's "El Burlador de Sevilla". In 1910 Scottish novelist and politician John Buchan used the legend in his sixth book, "Prester John", to supplement a plot about a Zulu uprising in South Africa. This book is an archetypal example of the early 20th-century adventure novel, and proved very popular in its day.