Tree-Becoming : Gender, Race, and Trauma on Shakespeare's Stage Pages:240 pages, 8 Halftones, black and white In Finding Albion

In Finding Albion

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her schoolteachers and the friends and neighbours all around her transformed into potential informants

these problems were not in themselves sufficient to have brought about a collapse

Tree-Becoming : Gender, Race, and Trauma on Shakespeare's Stage Pages:240 pages, 8 Halftones, black and white In Finding AlbionTrees abound in Shakespeare's plays, and in Tree Becoming Shannon Kelley explores how he uses his characters' identification with cypress, balsam, bay laurel, myrrh, and pine trees as metaphors to express emotional distress. Opening new avenues for investigating knowledge of the plant world in early modern literature, Kelley traces the Ovidian conceit of arboreal transformation in A Midsummer Night's Dream, King Lear, Othello, and The Tempest. Through