Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft
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Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (March 16, 1581 - May 21, 1647), was a Dutch historian, poet and playwright from the period known as the Dutch Golden Age.
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Work
Hooft was a prolific writer of plays, poems and letters, but he concentrated from 1618 onwards on writing his history of the Netherlands (Nederlandsche historiën), inspired by Roman historian Tacitus. His focus was primarily on the Eighty Years' War between The Netherlands and Spain.
As a poet, he was influenced by his Renaissance contemporaries in France and Italy.
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Plays
- Geeraerdt van Velsen ( 1613)
- Achilles en Polyxena (1614)
- Theseus en Ariane (1614)
- Granida (1615)
- Warenar (1616)
- Baeto, oft oorsprong der Holanderen (1626)
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Poems
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History
- Nederlandse historiën (1642-1656)
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