Most-searched works within OSS

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#	Search count	Work	Genre
1	417,136	Macbeth	Tragedy
2	373,584	Hamlet	Tragedy
3	324,815	Romeo and Juliet	Tragedy
4	236,306	Othello	Tragedy
5	203,093	King Lear	Tragedy
6	146,225	Antony and Cleopatra	Tragedy
7	145,351	Midsummer Night's Dream	Comedy
8	143,274	Twelfth Night	Comedy
9	142,454	Henry V	History
10	132,981	Henry IV, Part I	History
11	132,398	As You Like It	Comedy
12	129,914	Coriolanus	Tragedy
13	128,133	Cymbeline	Tragedy
14	125,096	All's Well That Ends Well	Comedy
15	124,148	Henry IV, Part II	History
16	118,489	Tempest	Comedy
17	118,271	Merchant of Venice	Comedy
18	117,195	Julius Caesar	Tragedy
19	113,088	Much Ado about Nothing	Comedy
20	108,334	Henry VI, Part I	History
21	103,111	Richard III	History
22	102,938	Henry VI, Part II	History
23	102,859	Sonnets	Sonnet
24	101,202	Love's Labour's Lost	Comedy
25	100,761	Winter's Tale	Comedy
26	97,344	Henry VI, Part III	History
27	94,641	Measure for Measure	Comedy
28	91,015	Richard II	History
29	90,574	Henry VIII	History
30	90,333	Titus Andronicus	Tragedy
31	87,858	Taming of the Shrew	Comedy
32	85,816	King John	History
33	83,579	Troilus and Cressida	Tragedy
34	81,556	Comedy of Errors	Comedy
35	70,810	Pericles	History
36	70,743	Merry Wives of Windsor	Comedy
37	69,776	Rape of Lucrece	Poem
38	66,667	Timon of Athens	Tragedy
39	57,790	Two Gentlemen of Verona	Comedy
40	52,866	Venus and Adonis	Poem
41	30,491	Lover's Complaint	Poem
42	22,290	Passionate Pilgrim	Poem
43	6,677	Phoenix and the Turtle	Poem

Last updated on June 10, 2023 at 3:00 am (GMT-7)

There have been 9,938,118 total searches since search logging began on September 22, 2012. Of those, 5,166,498 (52.0%) 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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