• first occurs 570 times in 553 speeches within 41 works.
  
• Possibly related word: first's
• Users have searched 2,234 times for first in Open Source Shakespeare.

• The numbers below indicate the number of speeches
  in which first appears in each listed work. If a single speech
  contains first more than once, the speech will still be counted once
  as part of the total count.
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All's Well That Ends Well (23)
Antony and Cleopatra (11)
As You Like It (16)
Comedy of Errors (9)
Coriolanus (24)
Cymbeline (30)
Hamlet (20)
Henry IV, Part I (8)
Henry IV, Part II (13)
Henry V (8)
Henry VI, Part I (22)
Henry VI, Part II (21)
Henry VI, Part III (9)
Henry VIII (18)
Julius Caesar (11)
King John (11)
King Lear (20)
Love's Labour's Lost (13)
Macbeth (14)
Measure for Measure (14)
Merchant of Venice (14)
Merry Wives of Windsor (11)
Midsummer Night's Dream (9)
Much Ado about Nothing (17)
Othello (14)
Passionate Pilgrim (1)
Pericles (14)
Rape of Lucrece (4)
Richard II (15)
Richard III (12)
Romeo and Juliet (9)
Sonnets (10)
Taming of the Shrew (23)
Tempest (14)
Timon of Athens (12)
Titus Andronicus (10)
Troilus and Cressida (12)
Twelfth Night (10)
Two Gentlemen of Verona (5)
Venus and Adonis (5)
Winter's Tale (17)