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Shakespeare Oracle      2003 Cynthia von Buhler                                                        Art Medium: Oil paint on board. Description: The Majors correspond to characters from Shakespeare's plays :- The Fool - Feste (Twelfth Night); The Magician - Shakespeare; The Abbess - Aemilia (The Comedy of Errors); The Empress - Queen Elizabeth (Henry VIII); The Emperor - Henry VIII; The Hierophant - Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (Henry VI); The Lovers - Romeo and Juliet; The Chariot - King Henry (Henry V); Justice - Portia (The Merchant of Venice); The Hermit - Caliban (The Tempest); Wheel of Fortune - Fortune Theatre; Strength - Katharina and Petruchio (Taming of the Shrew); The Hanged Man - Hamlet; Death - King Lear; Temperance - Prospero (The Tempest); The Devil - Puck (A Midsummer Night's Dream); The Tower - Timon (Timon of Athens); The Star - Cleopatra (Antony and Cleopatra); Moon - Three Witches (Macbeth); Sun - King of Navarre and Princess of France (Love's Labour's Lost); Judgment - Vincentio (Measure for Measure); The World - Globe Theatre. The Court cards correspond to characters from Shakespeare's plays :- Lady of Sceptres - Volumnia (Coriolanus); Lord of Sceptres - Richard Plantagenet (Henry VI); Queen of Sceptres - Katherine of Aragon (Henry VIII); King of Sceptres - Philip the Bastard (King John); Lady of Chalices - Rosalind (As You Like It); Lord of Chalices - Valentine (Two Gentlemen of Verona); Queen of Chalices - Hermione (The Winter's Tale); King of Chalices - Antony (Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar); Lady of Quills - Viola (Twelfth Night); Lord of Quills - Armado (Love's Labour's Lost); Queen of Quills - Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing); King of Quills - Richard II and Henry Bolingbroke (Richard II); Lady of Coins - Mistress Page (The Merry Wives of Windsor); Lord of Coins - Falstaff (Henry IV); Queen of Coins - Helena (All's Well That Ends Well); King of Coins - Shylock (The Merchant of Venice).