Most-searched works within OSS

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#	Search count	Work	Genre
1	32,892	Hamlet	Tragedy
2	29,742	Macbeth	Tragedy
3	18,526	Romeo and Juliet	Tragedy
4	15,520	Othello	Tragedy
5	12,758	King Lear	Tragedy
6	9,182	Midsummer Night's Dream	Comedy
7	7,227	Tempest	Comedy
8	7,208	Julius Caesar	Tragedy
9	6,432	Merchant of Venice	Comedy
10	6,265	Twelfth Night	Comedy
11	5,995	Sonnets	Sonnet
12	5,359	Much Ado about Nothing	Comedy
13	5,213	Henry IV, Part I	History
14	5,089	As You Like It	Comedy
15	4,934	Antony and Cleopatra	Tragedy
16	4,889	Measure for Measure	Comedy
17	4,880	Henry V	History
18	4,815	Titus Andronicus	Tragedy
19	4,760	Winter's Tale	Comedy
20	4,669	Richard III	History
21	4,296	Pericles	History
22	4,283	All's Well That Ends Well	Comedy
23	3,936	Richard II	History
24	3,887	Coriolanus	Tragedy
25	3,738	Taming of the Shrew	Comedy
26	3,424	Henry IV, Part II	History
27	3,331	Love's Labour's Lost	Comedy
28	3,229	Cymbeline	Tragedy
29	3,188	Troilus and Cressida	Tragedy
30	2,783	Comedy of Errors	Comedy
31	2,632	Henry VI, Part II	History
32	2,395	Henry VI, Part I	History
33	2,393	Merry Wives of Windsor	Comedy
34	2,342	Timon of Athens	Tragedy
35	2,307	Henry VI, Part III	History
36	2,169	Henry VIII	History
37	2,059	Rape of Lucrece	Poem
38	2,024	Two Gentlemen of Verona	Comedy
39	2,015	King John	History
40	1,671	Venus and Adonis	Poem
41	611	Lover's Complaint	Poem
42	547	Passionate Pilgrim	Poem
43	203	Phoenix and the Turtle	Poem

Last updated on May 24, 2013 at 3:00 am (GMT-4)

There have been 564,012 total searches since search logging began on September 22, 2012. Of those, 249,205 (44.2%) specified particular works, and those searches are tabulated above.

Searches that specify multiple works are counted multiple times. For example, performing a search within "Hamlet" and "Macbeth" will increase the search count by one for both plays, even though it was only one search.

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