Bob Acres

For the south Louisiana community named after this fictional character, see Bob Acres, Louisiana.

Bob Acres is a character in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals.

Acres was a coward, whose "courage always oozed out at his finger ends". He was popularly played in the 19th century by American actor Joseph Jefferson. (Jefferson named a Louisiana train station after this character; see Bob Acres, Louisiana.)[1]

References

1. Benjamin McArthur, The Man Who Was Rip Van Winkle: Joseph Jefferson and Nineteenth-Century American Theatre (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007), p. 274.