Joost van den Vondel got into trouble because of a play Palamedes, in which he was reminding to the beheading of Johan van Oldenbarneveldt.
For instance, his vocal music only employs Dutch-language texts, and when it has a programme, that is frequently inspired by Dutch themes: Rembrandt, Vondel’s Gijsbrecht van Aemstel, Dutch landscapes, and so forth.