# Sensation Adolphus — Short Plays character guide

> Sensation Adolphus in Short Plays by George Bernard Shaw.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Sensation, Adolphus, Sensation . Adolphus Rising, poor Adolphus, Adolphus Lime, Adolphus Tush, Adolphus Bastable, Adolphus Satisfied

**First appearance:** 0016-the-fascinating-foundling

## Snapshot

In The Fascinating Foundling, a young man whose new half-yellow, half-black evening dress is the least of the dangers awaiting him at Fitztollemache's flat.

## Who they are

Adolphus Bastable arrives at the Fitztollemache household in triumph over his new clothes, only to be drawn into a domestic scene of jealousy and poisoned gazogene. He is the rival Fitz would gladly see dead, yet he drinks the fatal toast with oblivious good cheer. His vanity and innocence make him the perfect victim of the play's comic cruelty, and his fate drives the early action toward its absurd crisis.

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