Bob Acres is a character in
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (30 October 17517 July 1816) was an Irish satirist, a politician, a playwright, poet, and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. He is known for his plays such as '' The Rivals'', '' The ...
's ''
The Rivals
''The Rivals'' is a comedy of manners by Richard Brinsley Sheridan in five acts which was first performed at Covent Garden Theatre on 17 January 1775. The story has been updated frequently, including a 1935 musical and a 1958 episode of the T ...
''.
Acres was a
coward
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, whose "courage always oozed out at his finger ends". He was popularly played in the 19th century by
American
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* American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America"
** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America
** American ancestry, pe ...
actor
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Joseph Jefferson. (Jefferson named a Louisiana train station after this character; see
Bob Acres, Louisiana
Bob Acres is a small unincorporated community in rural Iberia Parish, Louisiana, United States. It was established as a train station by American actor Joseph Jefferson,Benjamin McArthur, ''The Man Who Was Rip Van Winkle: Joseph Jefferson and ...
.)
[Benjamin McArthur, ''The Man Who Was Rip Van Winkle: Joseph Jefferson and Nineteenth-Century American Theatre'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007), p. 274.]
References
Acres, Bob
Acres, Bob
Acres, Bob
Acres, Bob
Acres, Bob
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