The theatre did not give in, particularly since its first two professors were Mennonites (Sibrant Hanses Cardinael in Arithmetic and Jan Thonis in Hebrew).
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The academy was inaugurated on 23 September 1617 with 'Apollo' by Suffridus Sixtinus, and the tragedy ' 'Vande moordt begaen aen Wilhelm van Orangien' (the murder of William of Orange) by Gijsbert van Hoghendorp.
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The institution was set up to offer better theatre than the old rederijkerskamers could then manage.
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