What was the name of Shakespeare's play that has no written record today?

Did William Shakespeare lose a play? The play Cardenio that has been credited to the Bard is called the lost play; it is a play that was performed in Shakespeare's life. Now it has been completely lost to time. Today, we have no written record of it’s story whatsoever.

Experts believe that the history of Cardenio is based on a story written by Miguel de Cervantes, one of Europe's greatest prose novelists. This novel was dramatized by William Shakespeare, one of Europe's greatest verse dramatist. Shakespeare worked in collaboration with John Fletcher, a very popular and respected English dramatist of the seventeenth century.

Shakespeare and Cervantes both died in 1616, within a few days of each another. Only three years before, Shakespeare had written a play based upon Cervantes' most famous work Don Quixote, shortly after publication of its English translation. The title of the play refers to a character in Don Quixote.

Cardenio (the lost play) was the first play Shakespeare worked on after The Tempest. It was not included in the 1623 edition of Shakespeare's plays, presumably because it was written in collaboration. Now it is known that Shakespeare's part-authorship of Cardenio with John Fletcher was not accepted until the second half of the twentieth century.