Joost van den Vondel

Biography

Joost van den Vondel (1587 – 1679) was a Dutch author, poet and playwright. He is considered the most prominent Dutch poet and playwright of the 17th century. His plays are still frequently performed; his play Gijsbrecht van Aemstel (1637), for example, was performed annually on New Year's Day from 1637 to 1968, and remains one of the Netherlands most famed plays. Vondel remained productive until a very old age. Several of his most notable plays like Lucifer (1654) - which was allegedly a sourc…