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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