Rosidor

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Rosidor
NationalityFrench
Occupation(s)Playwright, Actor
Known forWorks in French theater

Jean Guillemay du Chesnay, called Rosidor, was a 17th-century French playwright and actor.

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Career

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 in 1662. [2] He also wrote a comedy, Les divertissements du Temps ou la Magie de Mascarille, and another play, Les amours de Merlin in 1671, [3] although some sources date the plays in 1691 and attribute them to his son, Claude. [4] (With 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] [7]

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. [8] However, the death of King Frederick III in 1670 put an end to their business. [9] The troupe performed later in Germany, where they served the Duke of Celle, [2] and in Italy.

Personal life

Rosidor married Charlotte Meslier, the daughter of a couple of comedians trained by Mathias Meslier and Nicole Gassot, [10] with whom he had a son, Claude-Ferdinand Guillemay du Chesnay who would also be an actor.

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References

  1. ↑ Emile Campardon, Les comédiens du Roi de la Troupe française, Genève, 1970, p. 35.
  2. 1 2 J. Fransen, Les comédiens français en Hollande au XVII et XVIIIe siècles, Genève, 1978, p. 127.
  3. ↑ Henri Liebrecht, Histoire du théâtre français à Bruxelles au XVIIe et au XVIIIe siècle, Société des bibliophiles et iconophiles de Belgique, 1923, p. 63.
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Leiner, Horizons européens de la littérature française au XVIIe siècle: l'Europe, lieu d'échanges culturels? : la circulation des œuvres et des jugements au XVIIe siècle, G. Narr, 1988, p. 298.
  5. ↑ Mohamed Samy Djelassi (Éd.), Rosidor, Les valets de chambre nouvellistes: comédie inédite en cinq actes et en prose, écrite à Stockholm vers 1701, Volume 1, Uppsala universitet, 1988, p. 14.
  6. ↑ J. Fransen, op. cit., p.128.
  7. ↑ "Imaginaires, écritures, savoirs - Tangence - UQAR" (PDF). tangence.uqar.ca.
  8. ↑ Gérald Laudin, « Le théâtre dans les pays scandinaves », dans : Peter-Eckhard Knabe/Roland Mortier/François Moureau, L'aube de la modernité, John Benjamins Pub Co., 2002, p. 323.
  9. ↑ Marker, Frederick J.; Marker, Lise-Lone (1996). A History of Scandinavian Theatre, Cambridge University Press. p. 44.
  10. ↑ Yves Giraud, La Vie théâtrale dans les provinces du Midi, Gunter Narr Verlag, 1980, p. 161.
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