The Spanish Maze is a lost Jacobean stage drama whose author is unknown. It was performed at the court of King James I on 11 February 1605 by The King's Men, the acting company of William Shakespeare. It was one of ten plays performed there during the 1604-1605 holiday season, including seven by Shakespeare and two by Ben Jonson, and the only one of the ten now lost.[1] A few scholars have suggested that The Spanish Maze was an early version of Shakespeare's The Tempest.[2]

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  1. ^ Shapiro, James (2015). The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606. New York: Simon & Schuster. pp. 24–25. ISBN 978-1-4165-4164-6.
  2. ^ Roger A. Stritmatter; Lynne Kositsky (5 August 2013). On the Date, Sources and Design of Shakespeare's The Tempest. McFarland. p. 55. ISBN 978-1-4766-0370-4.