Most-searched works within OSS

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#	Search count	Work	Genre
1	205	Phoenix and the Turtle	Poem
2	548	Passionate Pilgrim	Poem
3	612	Lover's Complaint	Poem
4	1,676	Venus and Adonis	Poem
5	2,024	King John	History
6	2,039	Two Gentlemen of Verona	Comedy
7	2,068	Rape of Lucrece	Poem
8	2,176	Henry VIII	History
9	2,319	Henry VI, Part III	History
10	2,348	Timon of Athens	Tragedy
11	2,398	Merry Wives of Windsor	Comedy
12	2,408	Henry VI, Part I	History
13	2,650	Henry VI, Part II	History
14	2,791	Comedy of Errors	Comedy
15	3,198	Troilus and Cressida	Tragedy
16	3,243	Cymbeline	Tragedy
17	3,350	Love's Labour's Lost	Comedy
18	3,437	Henry IV, Part II	History
19	3,753	Taming of the Shrew	Comedy
20	3,922	Coriolanus	Tragedy
21	3,959	Richard II	History
22	4,296	All's Well That Ends Well	Comedy
23	4,306	Pericles	History
24	4,679	Richard III	History
25	4,774	Winter's Tale	Comedy
26	4,824	Titus Andronicus	Tragedy
27	4,892	Henry V	History
28	4,906	Measure for Measure	Comedy
29	4,964	Antony and Cleopatra	Tragedy
30	5,101	As You Like It	Comedy
31	5,226	Henry IV, Part I	History
32	5,374	Much Ado about Nothing	Comedy
33	6,009	Sonnets	Sonnet
34	6,284	Twelfth Night	Comedy
35	6,438	Merchant of Venice	Comedy
36	7,226	Julius Caesar	Tragedy
37	7,243	Tempest	Comedy
38	9,191	Midsummer Night's Dream	Comedy
39	12,775	King Lear	Tragedy
40	15,539	Othello	Tragedy
41	18,562	Romeo and Juliet	Tragedy
42	29,829	Macbeth	Tragedy
43	32,936	Hamlet	Tragedy

Last updated on May 25, 2013 at 6:00 am (GMT-4)

There have been 565,661 total searches since search logging began on September 22, 2012. Of those, 249,880 (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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