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Most-searched works within OSS

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# Search count Work Genre
1 11,039 Phoenix and the Turtle Poem
2 35,917 Passionate Pilgrim Poem
3 46,663 Lover's Complaint Poem
4 86,704 Venus and Adonis Poem
5 91,732 Two Gentlemen of Verona Comedy
6 106,750 Merry Wives of Windsor Comedy
7 106,971 Timon of Athens Tragedy
8 107,368 Pericles History
9 110,819 Rape of Lucrece Poem
10 118,736 Comedy of Errors Comedy
11 128,626 King John History
12 129,064 Taming of the Shrew Comedy
13 133,531 Titus Andronicus Tragedy
14 133,560 Troilus and Cressida Tragedy
15 135,190 Richard II History
16 135,363 Henry VIII History
17 136,330 Measure for Measure Comedy
18 143,149 Henry VI, Part III History
19 145,578 Love's Labour's Lost Comedy
20 149,199 Sonnets Sonnet
21 151,075 Winter's Tale Comedy
22 152,893 Much Ado about Nothing Comedy
23 154,491 Henry VI, Part II History
24 155,201 Richard III History
25 157,680 Julius Caesar Tragedy
26 159,444 Henry VI, Part I History
27 160,490 Merchant of Venice Comedy
28 165,371 Tempest Comedy
29 178,522 Henry IV, Part II History
30 181,836 As You Like It Comedy
31 188,838 All's Well That Ends Well Comedy
32 192,993 Midsummer Night's Dream Comedy
33 193,219 Henry IV, Part I History
34 193,577 Coriolanus Tragedy
35 195,273 Cymbeline Tragedy
36 201,325 Henry V History
37 205,227 Twelfth Night Comedy
38 208,868 Antony and Cleopatra Tragedy
39 264,768 King Lear Tragedy
40 311,248 Othello Tragedy
41 401,480 Romeo and Juliet Tragedy
42 475,968 Hamlet Tragedy
43 514,647 Macbeth Tragedy

Last updated on July 16, 2025 at 3:00 am (GMT-7)

There have been 13,245,525 total searches since search logging began on September 22, 2012. Of those, 7,256,934 (54.8%) 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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