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Crookback
Crookback meaning
A crooked back, or a person with such a back; a hunchback.
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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.
Kendall, Richard the Third, p. 537 Six years after Richard's death, in 1491, a schoolmaster named William Burton, on hearing a defence of Richard, launched into a diatribe, accusing the dead King of being 'a hypocrite and a crookback.