Bob Acres

Bob Acres is a coward in the "Rivals" (1775), a comedy of manners by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. His "courage always oozed out at his finger ends." He is an impressionable and naïve country landowner trying to make himself more fashionable and sophisticated to win over the affections of Lydia Languish, a girl of seventeen having a romantic idea of romance with someone poor and fell in love with "Ensign Beverley" who was actually Bob Acres' friend Captain Jack Absolute in disguise.

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