Historians suggest that there may be a large number of plays written by Shakespeare that were never published and are now lost. Which of these may be one of Shakespeare's lost plays that he worked on with John Fletcher, and was theoretically revised to become a play called Double Falsehood by Lewis Theobald?

The History of Cardenio is a play that appeared in a list of plays that were about to be published in 1653, that was credited to William Shakespeare and John Fletcher. In 1727, Lewis Theobald produced a play called Double Falsehood, which he claimed to be based on original manuscripts of The History of Cardenio. Historians argue the validity of this claim, but if true, Double Falsehood would be the only, albeit heavily edited, version of The History of Cardenio that we know of.

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