miles gloriosus

miles gloriosus
miles gloriosus [mī′lēz΄ glō΄rē ō′səs]
n.
〚L〛
a braggart, swashbuckling soldier, esp. as a stock character in classical comedy

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▪ stock figure
also called  Braggart Warrior 

      stock figure in theatrical comedies from Roman times to the present whose name derives from a comedy written c. 205 BC by the Roman playwright Plautus. Plautus' play, based on one or more Greek plays of unknown authorship, is a complicated farce in which a vain, lustful, and stupid soldier, Pyrgopolynices, is duped by his clever slave and a courtesan. The work was highly popular, and Pyrgopolynices became the prototype for many swaggering cowards of later comedy. One of the most popular stock figures of the commedia dell'arte of mid-16th-century Italy was the strutting Capitano. Created from the same pattern are Shakespeare's Falstaff and Pistol and the characters of many other Elizabethan playwrights, including Ben Jonson and Beaumont and Fletcher. The influence of Plautus' Miles Gloriosus can be seen in the works of many other dramatists, from Corneille to George Bernard Shaw and Bertolt Brecht.

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