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    Joost van den Vondel (Dutch: [ˈjoːst fɑn dəɱ ˈvɔndəl]; 17 November 1587 – 5 February 1679) was a Dutch playwright, poet, literary translator and writer...
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    Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. p. 335. Joost van den Vondel wrote in protest, among other things, the poem, Het stockske van Oldenbarnevelt Wikimedia...
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  • Dutch Literature, and is named after the 17th-century Dutch writer Joost van den Vondel. Winner:David Doherty for a translation of Summer Brother by Jaap...
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    son of Nauplius invented 11 letters. The major Dutch playwright Joost van den Vondel wrote in 1625 the play Palamedes, based on the Greek myth. The play...
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    Tesselschade, G.A. Bredero and Joost van den Vondel, as well as the Portuguese singer Francisca Duarte. Hooft, Bredero, and Vondel were also founders of the...
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    tragedy set in Heaven, written by the Dutch playwright and poet Joost van den Vondel, and premiered on 2 February in the city theater of Amsterdam. When...
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    Her literary examples were Sybrand Feitema and especially Joost van den Vondel. In the 1750s van Merken lost her entire family: her father (1754), her mother...
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    of art. It was originally gilded, but soon took a green patina. Joost van den Vondel wrote a poem about it that same year, titled To the splendid metal...
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    Republic in The Hague. Tulp is buried in the New Church of Amsterdam. Joost van den Vondel, a period poet, wrote several verses about him. Besides the famous...
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    alderman Jan Six presided; he was on terms of intimacy with the poet Joost van den Vondel and the treasurer Johannes Uitenbogaard. In his house, adorned with...
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