In the 1660s puppet shows featuring this pair, a hook-nosed hunchback & his shrewish wife, became popular
In 1890, Imre 
Kiralfy staged a gigantic "Nero Spec" for the Barnum & Bailey show, featuring sea 
battles, .... with hunchback and hooked nose, and roots in ancient Greek puppetry
, ... and usually the victim of a shrewish wife, he was played on stage by the likes
... [DOC] [TLE] The History of the English Puppet Theatre - Forgotten Books [PAR] century Italian peasant; his nose appears to be slightly but not ridiculously
hooked.