Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft

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.

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. He focussed primarily on the Eighty Years' War between The Netherlands and Spain.

Related Topics:
Plays - Poems - Letters - 1618 - Tacitus - Eighty Years' War - The Netherlands - Spain

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As a poet, he was influenced by his Renaissance contemporaries in France and Italy.

Related Topics:
Renaissance - France - Italy

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Plays

• Geeraerdt van Velsen ( 1613)
• Achilles en Polyxena (1614)
• Theseus en Ariane (1614)
• Granida (1615)
• Baeto, oft oorsprong der Holanderen (1626)
• Warenar (1670)

Poems

• Emblemata amatoria: afbeeldingen van minne (1611)

History

• Nederlandse historiën (1642-1656)