Were some of Shakespeare's most famous plays called Oliver Cinderella and Pocahontas?

Answer 1

The story Oliver Twist was written by Dickens in 1838, 220 years after Shakespeare died. The story of Cinderella is from Perreault's Fairy Tales, published in 1697, 81 years after Shakespeare died. Pocahantas was a real person who died in 1617 the year after Shakespeare did. However the famous story of her saving the life of John Smith was not told by Captain Smith until 1616, by which time Shakespeare was retired and on his deathbed.

So basically Shakespeare could not have dramatised these stories and in fact he did not.

Answer 2

No, Not even Shakespeare's least-famous plays have these titles. Pocahontas was a contemporary of Shakespeare, but she was unknown in England until two months after Shakespeare's death in April 1616. Cinderella is a story made popular by Perreault in 1697, and although an earlier version was around in 1634, in any event Shakespeare was dead by the time this story came out. Some scholars have found similarities between the story of Cinderella and the plot of the actual famous Shakespeare play King Lear. Oliver is actually the name of a play, but it was written in 1960, almost four hundred years after Shakespeare was born, and was based on a novel by Dickens written in 1837, only 220 years after Shakespeare died. There was a character by the name of Oliver in the French epic The Song of Roland who Shakespeare may have heard of, but he didn't write about him. As for Oliver Twist, Cinderella and Pocahontas, the stories of these characters were all created after Shakespeare was dead.