The main purpose of this article is to reevaluate the role of Shakespearian dramaturgy in Voltaire\u2019s Za\uefre, proposing other possible sources. Verdadera Historia del Rey don Rodrigo (1592), containing the story of Muslim princess Zahra, a text that Voltaire read in a French translation by Leroux, and its importance for Voltaire\u2019s play, will so be analysed
