{"product_id":"tree-becoming-gender-race-and-trauma-on-shakespeares-stage","title":"Tree-Becoming: Gender, Race, and Trauma on Shakespeare's Stage","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrees abound in Shakespeare's plays, and in \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTree-Becoming, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eShannon Kelley explores how he uses his characters' identification with cypress, balsam, bay laurel, myrrh, and pine trees as metaphors to express emotional distress.\u003c\/b\u003e Opening new avenues for investigating knowledge of the plant world in early modern literature, Kelley traces the Ovidian conceit of arboreal transformation in \u003ci\u003eA Midsummer Night's Dream\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOthello\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough the recurring motif of tree-becoming, in which characters who can no longer endure painful feelings align with or are imagined as trees, Kelley proposes a radical reading of Shakespeare's depiction of trauma's lingering impact on the body and psyche. These arboreal moments resist resolution and resist healing, offering instead a vision of survival and endurance. Bringing Shakespeare in conversation with insights from critical plant and trauma studies, \u003ci\u003eTree-Becoming\u003c\/i\u003e honors survivors of trauma as they are, not as we would have them be: they become trees--different but not less than.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shannon Kelley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46053860180037,"sku":"BS-LIB-787300","price":48.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2482\/2494\/files\/9781501787300-HD.jpg?v=1792370605","url":"https:\/\/libros787.com\/products\/tree-becoming-gender-race-and-trauma-on-shakespeares-stage","provider":"Libros787.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}