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Sansom gave Shardlake a deformed spine — unkind folks call him “crookback” — and, along with the prosthetics, Hughes, born with radial dysplasia, brings his own foreshortened, twisted right arm.

The crookback lord looked again and gave a sudden snort.

The interior of the square was a maze of stalls and crookback aisles, shaded by awnings of woven grass.

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.

The usual perplexing concerns of motive and Freudian pathology that attend portrayals of Shakespeare’s crookback are not at issue in this production, conceived and adapted by Tony Simotes and directed by Jonathan Croy.