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Joost van den Vondel (17 November 1587 — 5 February 1679) was a Dutch writer and playwright. He is considered the most prominent Dutch poet and playwright of the 17th century. His plays are the ones from that period that are still most frequently performed, and his epic Joannes de Boetgezant (1662), on the life of John the Baptist, has been called the greatest Dutch epic.

Performance of his theatre pieces is regular. The most visible was the annual performance from 1637 to 1968 on New Year's Day of Gijsbrecht van Aemstel.

Vondel stayed productive until a very old age. Several of his most notable plays like Lucifer and Adam in Ballingschap were written after 1650, when he was already 65.

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