Shakespearean Playing Cards

"The game's afoot!" ~Henry V

Behold! A playing card deck for students, teachers, drama geeks, bookish types and actors alike.

This deck of 54 playing cards is completely custom, and is illustrated more in the style of "transformation" playing cards; the pips or suits have a tendency to form a picture/mood/concept that relates to the quotes on them.

The face cards, A, J, Q, and K contain hand drawn and computer colored illustrations of each character with a short quote, as do the two "Fools" (jokers)

The characters in the suits are arranged as such:
Spades: Violence and vengeance
Hearts: Love and bravery
Clubs: Murder and Misfortune
Diamonds: Comedy and Drama

The lush back design features a modified version of a 16th century tapestry motif.

A list of the plays that are represented:
All's Well That Ends Well
Antony and Cleopatra
As You Like It
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Hamlet
Henry IV, Part I
Henry V
Julius Caesar
King John
King Lear
Macbeth
Merchant of Venice
Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado about Nothing
Othello
Pericles
Richard II
Richard III
Romeo and Juliet
Taming of the Shrew
Tempest
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida
Twelfth Night