 Historically, another such woman was Xanthippe, Socrates' wife, who is mentioned by Petruchio himself (1.2.70).Such characters also occur throughout medieval literature, in popular farces both before and during Shakespeare's lifetime, and in folklore.In 1890, Alfred Tolman conjectured a possible literary source for the wager scene may have been William Caxton's 1484 translation of Geoffroy IV de la Tour Landry's "Livre pour l'enseignement de ses filles du Chevalier de La Tour Landry" (1372).