Middle School Macbeth Copy
I read Macbeth in school in 6th grade as part of my English class. In Theater class you guys get printed and stapled packets for your plays, but this was in actual codex form since we were just reading it and not performing and memorizing. The school gave the copies out to all 30 of us, so it was kind of like a textbook for us. It was the basic text of Macbeth with a lot of extra historical information, images, pictures from actual performance of Macbeth, and explanations for some lines of the play. My copy has a lot of highlighting and underlining throughout it that is probably very similar to all 30 of my classmate's copies. What is unique about mine is the drawings and doodles sacrilegiously spread throughout the margins. These drawings are all terrible and mostly done in highlighter - some by me and others by my friends sitting next to me at the time.
Looking at the book's cover and flipping through it definitely reminds me of that class - my classmates and my great teacher, Mr. Bauer - but these memories are neither fond nor unpleasant. Looking at the book reminds me mostly of the content of Macbeth despite the personal significance of the actual codex. This is mostly due to the simple fact that nothing incredibly memorable happened in that class in the time-frame we were reading Macbeth or as a result a of reading the play.
I like that it has classmates' doodles in it too, which gives it a bit of a community relic quality.
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