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antihero

The protagonist of a novel or play who, instead of displaying heroic or sympathetic characteristics, is incompetent, foolish, and often immoral. Examples include Don Quixote in Cervantes' Don Quixote (1605) and Jimmy Porter in John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger (1957).
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Novelist and playwright Matthew Carnahan was brought in and tinkered with the concept, introducing, at FX's suggestion, ``a female antihero.
TURNING THE TABLOIDS COURTENEY COX LEAVES MONICA BEHIND IN `DIRT' by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Her final contact with the theater came in 1999 when the Limon Dance Company invited her to restage Champion (1948), an early work about a prize-fighter who was an antihero.
Sophie Maslow (1911-2006) by Hering, Doris / Dance Magazine
There are some who credit Sabatini with the introduction of the antihero to pop culture; indeed, many of his main characters are rogues.
Pomplun, Tom, ed. Graphic Classics: Rafael Sabatini by Galuschak, George / Kliatt
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