Jean Guillemay du Chesnay, called Rosidor, was a 17th-century French playwright and actor.
First a comedian in the Troupe du Marais,[1] Rosidor composed a five-act tragedy entitled La Mort du Grand Cyrus ou La Vengeance de Tomiris en 1662.
[2] He also wrote a comedy Les divertissements du Temps ou la Magie de Mascarille and another play, Les amours de Merlin en 1671,[3] although some sources date the plays in 1691 and attribute them to his son Claude.
[4] (father and son sharing the same nickname, this is a great source of confusion[5]) Rosidor played in the satire La critique des Satures de Monsieur Boileau in 1668, a play which was quickly forbidden.
[6] Rosidor became the leader of a troupe that moved in 1669 to the Danish court where it gave performances both in French and in German.