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alazon

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A Greek term meaning impostor. The alazon is a stock figure in comedy, frequently taking the form of the miles gloriosus (the braggart warrior) or the learned bore ("the pedant"). He sometimes figures in the comic plot as one of the suitors of the heroine and is frequently set up in contrast to his opposite, the eiron. Modern versions of the alazon figure include the figures of the professor in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya (1899) and Captain Boyle in Sean O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock (1924).

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