Alazon

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One might say: “The alazon in this story is particularly funny.” Or, “Did you hear what he said? He’s like a modern-day alazon.” Miles Gloriosus" redirects here. For the Plautus play, see Miles Gloriosus (play). The "braggart soldier" Pyrgopolynices in a 2012 production of the play Miles Gloriosus In the PC game The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, there is a non-playable character named Miles Gloriosus, willing to brag about his accomplishments as soldier. Victor L. Cahn, Shakespeare the Playwright: A Companion to the Complete Tragedies, Histories, Comedies, and Romances, Praeger, Westport, 1996. p.468. The character of Baron Munchausen is based on a real-life person who fought for the Russian Empire. He became a celebrity after the Russo-Turkish War. The stories about his character inspired Rudolf Erich Raspe to adapt the man into a literary character. His exploits in the book are fictional. They feature his outrageous achievements and travels, much of which are clearly an exaggeration. Here is a quote from the book:

Baron Munchausen from Baron Munchausen’s Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia by Rudolf Erich Raspe Ancient Pistol is one of the best comedic characters in Shakespeare’s plays. He appeared in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry V and Henry IV, Part II. He’s described by Falstaff as his “ancient,” or his ensign, and first appears in the Boar’s Head Tavern uninvited. He’s pursued by police in this same play because he assaulted a man who died. He’s also punished along with Falstaff at the end of Henry IV, Part II.

Shakespeare uses the type most notably with the bombastic and self-glorifying ensign Ancient Pistol in Henry IV, Part 2, The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry V. [4] Other examples are "fashion's own knight", the Spaniard Armardo, in Love's Labour's Lost, the worthless Captain Parolles in All's Well That Ends Well, and Falstaff in Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2, and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Sir Tophas of John Lyly's Endymion also fits the mold. Dramatic Monologue: a conversation a speaker has with themselves or which is directed at a listener or reader who does not respond. The senex iratus or heavy father figure is a comic archetype character who belongs to the alazon or impostor group in theater, manifesting himself through his rages and threats, his obsessions and his gullibility. His usual function is to impede the love of the hero and heroine, and his power to do so stems from his greater social position and his increased control of cash. In the New Comedy, he was often the father of the hero and so his rival. More frequently since, he has been the father of the heroine who insists on her union with the bad fiancé; as such, he appears in both A Midsummer Night's Dream, where he fails and so the play is a comedy, and Romeo and Juliet, where his acts are successful enough to render the play a tragedy. Academic Drama: a theatrical movement that was popular during the Renaissance in the 16th-century. It was performed in universities.

Carlson, Marvin. 1993. Theories of the Theatre: A Historical and Critical Survey from the Greeks to the Present. Expanded. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-8154-3.Act: a primary division of a dramatic work, like a play, film, opera, or other performance. The act is made up of shorter scenes. Tragedy: refers to a type of drama that explores serious, sometimes dark, and depressing subject matter. Throughout both plays, he engages in bombastic and over-the-top speeches. He is often, without realizing it, the butt of jokes. Examples of Alazons Ancient Pistol in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry V, and Henry IV, Part II by William Shakespeare