Vanity, Thy Name is Woman Said no one. What Hamlet actually said was "Frailty, Thy name is woman" - referring to his mother's marriage to Claudius - but vanity has effectively pushed frailty aside. The painting below from around 1625 has various names: Vanitas, or The

Verona is the city of the Roman poet Catullus, the composer Salieri (of Amadeus fame), and three early Shakespearean plays: Romeo and Juliet; his "trial run" The Two Gentlemen of Verona and the ironic comedy The Taming of the Shrew, which is set in both Verona and Padua.