| Matthew Shardlake, a crookback lawyer, is an unlikely hero, clever and sensitive and determined to seek the truth. |
| At the same time, Conrad Nelson's crookback Richard hovers malevolently over the infant prince's pram, in the first recorded instance of an insincere politician kissing a baby. |
| Ben Jonson is also known to have written a play Richard Crookback in 1602, but it was never published and nothing is known about its portrayal of the king. |
| But the boldness of his performance lies in his choosing to play the crookback king as someone who never lets his consciousness get the better of him. |
| Rooster is a paragon of virtue compared to Shakespeare's Richard Crookback. |
| When the battle of warfare begins, it shall be where crookback Richard made his fray. |
