Shakespeare Tarot

euripides

So I've just discovered this deck via the Aeclectic What's New sidebar
http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/shakespeare-tarot/

and oh my does it look *so* my sort of thing - layered images and text...

Does anyone have theirs yet? What is the cardstock like? Is the text legible? I wasn't too sure about some of the elaborate fonts.

I'm not supposed to be buying new decks ... I think I might have motivation to trade a couple that I haven't used!
 

gregory

I just got it ten minutes ago ! The cardstock is fine - the cards are rather LARGE though ! Think big postcard.

But goodness it is going to be hard work to read with. There's just SO MUCH on there - and I'd forgotten about the "bad quartos" and apocrypha cards which really threw me off when I was trying to see which was which. The listing here doesn't mention those. Take a look at the website to see about those:

http://www.shakespearetarot.com/bad-quartos
http://www.shakespearetarot.com/apocrypha

I do think it is pretty much YOU, though, euripides. "Layers" does not being to describe....
 

gregory

Anyone who sees anything in the stuff ABOUT THIS DECK about "The History of Cardento" card - I'd like to hear from you. I AM aware of the play; I can find nothing about how it got into this deck except by Shakespeare's involvement with Fletcher and a passing reference to Cardento under The Second Maiden's Tragedy. It isn't mentioned anywhere on the website - and all the other bad quarto cards etc are.
 

AJ

I can see I'll be hours on the scans, trying to get familiar with what card is what. If it were easy everyone would do it, right? Amazing deck.
 

gregory

I'm downloading ALL the text from the website for study. It is a nightmare enterprise....
 

euripides

I do think it is pretty much YOU, though, euripides. "Layers" does not being to describe....

I think you might be right!

I'm downloading ALL the text from the website for study. It is a nightmare enterprise....

How marvelous to find a deck that warrants this kind of depth of study.

By the way, if you haven't seen Prospero's Books, do.
 

gregory

122 pages in the main document, plus 6 on the false folios....

Though I must admit it all needs some (more) reformatting... so it may shrink a bit.