Note 65 — Chapter IV
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Vondel, b. 1587 (at Cologne); d. 1679. He was the author of many dramatic pieces, among which were “Jephtha,” “Marie Stuart,” “Lucifer” (Luisevaar). Vondel also wrote “Adam in Exile,” and “Samson, or Divine Vengeance.” This latter, according to a writer in The Athenæum of November 7, 1885, has suspicious points of resemblance with “Samson Agonistes.”
Other allied topics of interest are discussed in same journal’s notice of George Edmundson’s book on the Milton and Vondel question (Trübner & Co., London, 1885).
Vondel survived the production of his “Lucifer” by a quarter of a century, and died five years after Milton.