OCD even made an appearance in a classic piece of literature. In his play Macbeth, Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth was a textbook example of someone with OCD. ... Please note that all of these obsessions are extreme. ... The compulsion to clean or wash or wash is that of Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth, and it involves cleaning ones self or inanimate objects excessively, usually following a set routine (Summers, 1999). ...

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Between the time periods of the Medieval era and the Renaissance, one can note numerous significant changes, mainly those pertaining to religion and art, and specifically, drama. ... We see the culmination of the destroyed safety of the Medieval world in Shakespeare's plays including Hamlet, Macbeth, Richard III, and King Lear. ... He also developed the classic archetype of the Machiavel, which we see in almost every dramatic text from The Spanish Tragedy on. ...

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