article_snippet.sent: the king was described by William Shakespeare as a 'poisonous bunch-back'd toad' in the king play depicting the monarch.
article_snippet.sent: The notorious description by William Shakespeare of a ‘hunchback toad’, a Machiavellian villain suffering a twisted body, a limp and withered arm, was almost certainly an attempt to blacken the king reputation, experts claim.
article_snippet.sent: She said: 'It is highly likely that the king took care to control the king public image. '
article_snippet.sent: The body of the king’s spine was part of the propaganda of power, and even when The body of the king was revealed in order to be anointed as part of the king
article_snippet.sent: The body of the king was simultaneously concealed from the congregation. '
article_snippet.sent: It was only after the king’s spine death at the battle of Bosworth in 1485 that the king’s spine physical shape was made public when the king’s spine corpse was stripped and displayed.
article_snippet.sent: the king blackened reputation rather than the king physical appearance.
article_snippet.sent: Scientists studying his remains believe the kingwas surrounded by a mob of enemy soldiers and hacked to death after the king had lost the king helmet.
highlights_snippet.sent: Historian Dr Mary Ann Lund says the king's name was probably blackened after death in battle .