Most-searched works within OSS

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#	Search count	Work	Genre
1	4,152	All's Well That Ends Well	Comedy
2	4,729	Antony and Cleopatra	Tragedy
3	4,960	As You Like It	Comedy
4	2,695	Comedy of Errors	Comedy
5	3,700	Coriolanus	Tragedy
6	3,089	Cymbeline	Tragedy
7	32,522	Hamlet	Tragedy
8	5,101	Henry IV, Part I	History
9	3,294	Henry IV, Part II	History
10	4,743	Henry V	History
11	2,320	Henry VI, Part I	History
12	2,548	Henry VI, Part II	History
13	2,213	Henry VI, Part III	History
14	2,079	Henry VIII	History
15	7,070	Julius Caesar	Tragedy
16	1,928	King John	History
17	12,573	King Lear	Tragedy
18	3,226	Love's Labour's Lost	Comedy
19	576	Lover's Complaint	Poem
20	29,233	Macbeth	Tragedy
21	4,790	Measure for Measure	Comedy
22	6,213	Merchant of Venice	Comedy
23	2,320	Merry Wives of Windsor	Comedy
24	9,044	Midsummer Night's Dream	Comedy
25	5,271	Much Ado about Nothing	Comedy
26	15,301	Othello	Tragedy
27	517	Passionate Pilgrim	Poem
28	4,213	Pericles	History
29	198	Phoenix and the Turtle	Poem
30	1,990	Rape of Lucrece	Poem
31	3,840	Richard II	History
32	4,581	Richard III	History
33	18,090	Romeo and Juliet	Tragedy
34	5,854	Sonnets	Sonnet
35	3,644	Taming of the Shrew	Comedy
36	7,101	Tempest	Comedy
37	2,257	Timon of Athens	Tragedy
38	4,723	Titus Andronicus	Tragedy
39	3,068	Troilus and Cressida	Tragedy
40	6,145	Twelfth Night	Comedy
41	1,970	Two Gentlemen of Verona	Comedy
42	1,613	Venus and Adonis	Poem
43	4,667	Winter's Tale	Comedy

Last updated on May 20, 2013 at 7:00 am (GMT-4)

There have been 551,861 total searches since search logging began on September 22, 2012. Of those, 243,599 (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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