Most-searched works within OSS

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#	Search count	Work	Genre
1	5,171	Winter's Tale	Comedy
2	1,808	Venus and Adonis	Poem
3	2,179	Two Gentlemen of Verona	Comedy
4	6,636	Twelfth Night	Comedy
5	3,423	Troilus and Cressida	Tragedy
6	5,068	Titus Andronicus	Tragedy
7	2,535	Timon of Athens	Tragedy
8	7,624	Tempest	Comedy
9	4,012	Taming of the Shrew	Comedy
10	6,408	Sonnets	Sonnet
11	19,753	Romeo and Juliet	Tragedy
12	4,961	Richard III	History
13	4,226	Richard II	History
14	2,234	Rape of Lucrece	Poem
15	220	Phoenix and the Turtle	Poem
16	4,472	Pericles	History
17	574	Passionate Pilgrim	Poem
18	16,365	Othello	Tragedy
19	5,708	Much Ado about Nothing	Comedy
20	9,782	Midsummer Night's Dream	Comedy
21	2,577	Merry Wives of Windsor	Comedy
22	6,950	Merchant of Venice	Comedy
23	5,307	Measure for Measure	Comedy
24	32,424	Macbeth	Tragedy
25	653	Lover's Complaint	Poem
26	3,596	Love's Labour's Lost	Comedy
27	13,544	King Lear	Tragedy
28	2,186	King John	History
29	7,460	Julius Caesar	Tragedy
30	2,331	Henry VIII	History
31	2,487	Henry VI, Part III	History
32	2,826	Henry VI, Part II	History
33	2,570	Henry VI, Part I	History
34	5,211	Henry V	History
35	3,709	Henry IV, Part II	History
36	5,523	Henry IV, Part I	History
37	34,095	Hamlet	Tragedy
38	3,562	Cymbeline	Tragedy
39	4,207	Coriolanus	Tragedy
40	3,000	Comedy of Errors	Comedy
41	5,502	As You Like It	Comedy
42	5,378	Antony and Cleopatra	Tragedy
43	4,621	All's Well That Ends Well	Comedy

Last updated on June 18, 2013 at 5:00 pm (GMT-4)

There have been 610,128 total searches since search logging began on September 22, 2012. Of those, 265,655 (43.5%) 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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