Adolphus Charles Troughton

Adolphus Charles Troughton was a British playwright active in the 1860s. He is remembered for short comic stage works such as Short and Sweet and Vandyke Brown, both of which have remained in circulation through public-domain collections.

Listings from library and bookseller records also connect him with plays including Leading Strings, Living Too Fast; or, A Twelvemonth's Honeymoon, The Fly and the Web, and Wooing in Jest and Loving in Earnest. The titles alone suggest the world he worked in: light comedy, domestic confusion, and the kind of fast-moving misunderstandings that suited one-act and small-cast performance.

Very little biographical detail is easy to confirm today, which makes the plays themselves the clearest introduction to his career. For listeners and readers of classic drama, Troughton is an interesting rediscovery from the Victorian theatrical tradition.