Most-searched works within OSS

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#	Search count	Work	Genre
1	4,679	Winter's Tale	Comedy
2	1,618	Venus and Adonis	Poem
3	1,977	Two Gentlemen of Verona	Comedy
4	6,161	Twelfth Night	Comedy
5	3,083	Troilus and Cressida	Tragedy
6	4,739	Titus Andronicus	Tragedy
7	2,270	Timon of Athens	Tragedy
8	7,124	Tempest	Comedy
9	3,657	Taming of the Shrew	Comedy
10	5,865	Sonnets	Sonnet
11	18,137	Romeo and Juliet	Tragedy
12	4,602	Richard III	History
13	3,862	Richard II	History
14	1,993	Rape of Lucrece	Poem
15	198	Phoenix and the Turtle	Poem
16	4,223	Pericles	History
17	522	Passionate Pilgrim	Poem
18	15,348	Othello	Tragedy
19	5,278	Much Ado about Nothing	Comedy
20	9,072	Midsummer Night's Dream	Comedy
21	2,334	Merry Wives of Windsor	Comedy
22	6,236	Merchant of Venice	Comedy
23	4,801	Measure for Measure	Comedy
24	29,320	Macbeth	Tragedy
25	579	Lover's Complaint	Poem
26	3,246	Love's Labour's Lost	Comedy
27	12,603	King Lear	Tragedy
28	1,940	King John	History
29	7,101	Julius Caesar	Tragedy
30	2,092	Henry VIII	History
31	2,230	Henry VI, Part III	History
32	2,564	Henry VI, Part II	History
33	2,335	Henry VI, Part I	History
34	4,766	Henry V	History
35	3,316	Henry IV, Part II	History
36	5,132	Henry IV, Part I	History
37	32,631	Hamlet	Tragedy
38	3,113	Cymbeline	Tragedy
39	3,749	Coriolanus	Tragedy
40	2,714	Comedy of Errors	Comedy
41	4,981	As You Like It	Comedy
42	4,776	Antony and Cleopatra	Tragedy
43	4,177	All's Well That Ends Well	Comedy

Last updated on May 21, 2013 at 1:00 am (GMT-4)

There have been 554,406 total searches since search logging began on September 22, 2012. Of those, 244,529 (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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