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Adolphus Charles Troughton
Best known for brisk Victorian comedies and farces, this British playwright wrote stage pieces built on lively misunderstandings, quick dialogue, and compact theatrical charm. His surviving works still read like snapshots of mid-19th-century popular entertainment.
2 Audiobooks
Short and Sweet: A Comic Drama, in One Act
by Adolphus Charles Troughton
Vandyke Brown: A Farce in One Act
by Adolphus Charles Troughton
About the author
Adolphus Charles Troughton was a British playwright active in the mid-19th century, especially the 1850s and 1860s. Sources consistently link him with light comic theatre, and surviving editions of his plays show a writer drawn to farce, comedietta, and one-act drama.
Among the works associated with him are Living Too Fast; or, A Twelvemonth's Honeymoon, Short and Sweet, Vandyke Brown, and Leading Strings. Evidence from theatre and library records shows that Living Too Fast was licensed in 1854 and first performed in London that same year, which places Troughton firmly in the Victorian stage world.
Some reference sources give his life dates as 1814–1900, but the available information is sparse, so many personal details remain uncertain. I couldn’t confirm a reliable portrait of him from the sources I found, but his plays remain accessible through public-domain and library collections, which is why his work still turns up in reading and audiobook catalogs today.