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Tree-Becoming : Gender, Race, and Trauma on Shakespeare's Stage Pages:240 pages, 8 Halftones, black and white these problems were not inTrees 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