Most-searched works within OSS

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#	Search count	Work	Genre
1	18,105	Romeo and Juliet	Tragedy
2	3,712	Coriolanus	Tragedy
3	12,577	King Lear	Tragedy
4	2,263	Timon of Athens	Tragedy
5	3,101	Cymbeline	Tragedy
6	29,272	Macbeth	Tragedy
7	4,724	Titus Andronicus	Tragedy
8	32,531	Hamlet	Tragedy
9	15,305	Othello	Tragedy
10	4,732	Antony and Cleopatra	Tragedy
11	3,069	Troilus and Cressida	Tragedy
12	7,082	Julius Caesar	Tragedy
13	5,858	Sonnets	Sonnet
14	577	Lover's Complaint	Poem
15	1,613	Venus and Adonis	Poem
16	517	Passionate Pilgrim	Poem
17	198	Phoenix and the Turtle	Poem
18	1,990	Rape of Lucrece	Poem
19	5,111	Henry IV, Part I	History
20	2,549	Henry VI, Part II	History
21	4,214	Pericles	History
22	3,294	Henry IV, Part II	History
23	2,219	Henry VI, Part III	History
24	3,842	Richard II	History
25	4,745	Henry V	History
26	2,079	Henry VIII	History
27	4,581	Richard III	History
28	2,320	Henry VI, Part I	History
29	1,928	King John	History
30	2,323	Merry Wives of Windsor	Comedy
31	6,147	Twelfth Night	Comedy
32	7,102	Tempest	Comedy
33	3,226	Love's Labour's Lost	Comedy
34	9,052	Midsummer Night's Dream	Comedy
35	4,152	All's Well That Ends Well	Comedy
36	1,971	Two Gentlemen of Verona	Comedy
37	4,790	Measure for Measure	Comedy
38	5,273	Much Ado about Nothing	Comedy
39	4,961	As You Like It	Comedy
40	4,670	Winter's Tale	Comedy
41	6,215	Merchant of Venice	Comedy
42	3,644	Taming of the Shrew	Comedy
43	2,697	Comedy of Errors	Comedy

Last updated on May 20, 2013 at 11:00 am (GMT-4)

There have been 552,318 total searches since search logging began on September 22, 2012. Of those, 243,751 (44.1%) 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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