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Most-searched works within OSS

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# Search count Work Genre
1 497,957 Macbeth Tragedy
2 458,222 Hamlet Tragedy
3 390,175 Romeo and Juliet Tragedy
4 298,891 Othello Tragedy
5 258,042 King Lear Tragedy
6 196,323 Antony and Cleopatra Tragedy
7 191,737 Henry V History
8 190,152 Twelfth Night Comedy
9 187,024 Midsummer Night's Dream Comedy
10 184,431 Henry IV, Part I History
11 181,486 Cymbeline Tragedy
12 175,364 All's Well That Ends Well Comedy
13 174,947 Coriolanus Tragedy
14 171,246 As You Like It Comedy
15 170,547 Henry IV, Part II History
16 159,954 Tempest Comedy
17 155,920 Merchant of Venice Comedy
18 152,759 Julius Caesar Tragedy
19 150,682 Richard III History
20 150,502 Henry VI, Part I History
21 148,680 Much Ado about Nothing Comedy
22 145,797 Henry VI, Part II History
23 145,579 Winter's Tale Comedy
24 144,111 Sonnets Sonnet
25 141,769 Love's Labour's Lost Comedy
26 136,123 Henry VI, Part III History
27 132,295 Measure for Measure Comedy
28 131,977 Henry VIII History
29 131,124 Richard II History
30 129,755 Titus Andronicus Tragedy
31 129,347 Troilus and Cressida Tragedy
32 125,355 Taming of the Shrew Comedy
33 124,591 King John History
34 110,594 Comedy of Errors Comedy
35 107,410 Rape of Lucrece Poem
36 104,019 Pericles History
37 103,513 Timon of Athens Tragedy
38 103,293 Merry Wives of Windsor Comedy
39 89,078 Two Gentlemen of Verona Comedy
40 83,933 Venus and Adonis Poem
41 45,242 Lover's Complaint Poem
42 34,573 Passionate Pilgrim Poem
43 10,574 Phoenix and the Turtle Poem

Last updated on February 16, 2025 at 3:00 am (GMT-8)

There have been 12,676,683 total searches since search logging began on September 22, 2012. Of those, 6,960,012 (54.9%) 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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