Most-searched works within OSS

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#	Search count	Work	Genre
1	495,973	Macbeth	Tragedy
2	456,578	Hamlet	Tragedy
3	388,627	Romeo and Juliet	Tragedy
4	297,114	Othello	Tragedy
5	256,552	King Lear	Tragedy
6	195,975	Antony and Cleopatra	Tragedy
7	191,423	Henry V	History
8	189,719	Twelfth Night	Comedy
9	186,394	Midsummer Night's Dream	Comedy
10	184,009	Henry IV, Part I	History
11	181,220	Cymbeline	Tragedy
12	175,041	All's Well That Ends Well	Comedy
13	174,617	Coriolanus	Tragedy
14	170,944	As You Like It	Comedy
15	170,277	Henry IV, Part II	History
16	159,432	Tempest	Comedy
17	155,538	Merchant of Venice	Comedy
18	152,418	Julius Caesar	Tragedy
19	150,318	Richard III	History
20	150,250	Henry VI, Part I	History
21	148,355	Much Ado about Nothing	Comedy
22	145,553	Henry VI, Part II	History
23	145,282	Winter's Tale	Comedy
24	143,627	Sonnets	Sonnet
25	141,531	Love's Labour's Lost	Comedy
26	135,922	Henry VI, Part III	History
27	132,021	Measure for Measure	Comedy
28	131,770	Henry VIII	History
29	130,899	Richard II	History
30	129,430	Titus Andronicus	Tragedy
31	129,088	Troilus and Cressida	Tragedy
32	125,054	Taming of the Shrew	Comedy
33	124,349	King John	History
34	110,371	Comedy of Errors	Comedy
35	107,237	Rape of Lucrece	Poem
36	103,792	Pericles	History
37	103,275	Timon of Athens	Tragedy
38	103,078	Merry Wives of Windsor	Comedy
39	88,873	Two Gentlemen of Verona	Comedy
40	83,785	Venus and Adonis	Poem
41	45,175	Lover's Complaint	Poem
42	34,503	Passionate Pilgrim	Poem
43	10,545	Phoenix and the Turtle	Poem

Last updated on January 25, 2025 at 3:00 am (GMT-8)

There have been 12,598,074 total searches since search logging began on September 22, 2012. Of those, 6,940,810 (55.1%) 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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