In the 1660s puppet shows featuring this pair, a hook-nosed hunchback & his shrewish wife, became popular
The show 
became one of Broadway's most notorious backstage dramas,... [DOC] [TLE] Full text of "History of the English puppet theatre" - Internet Archive [PAR] 142. aa/^rer VIL ENGLISH PUNCH: THE POPULAR PUPPET SHOW OF THE ..... 
and the nose of his black half-mask became grotesquely hooked to form the .... in 
Venice, in particular, Pulcinella became generally hunchbacked and wore a tall, 
...... he was plagued with a shrewish wife; he was always indulging in horseplay,
... [DOC] [TLE] Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama [PAR] This is some blundering adventure, wherein he thought to show his ......