Most-searched works within OSS

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#	Search count	Work	Genre
1	4,517	Phoenix and the Turtle	Poem
2	15,115	Passionate Pilgrim	Poem
3	19,554	Lover's Complaint	Poem
4	35,568	Venus and Adonis	Poem
5	39,997	Two Gentlemen of Verona	Comedy
6	45,658	Timon of Athens	Tragedy
7	48,212	Rape of Lucrece	Poem
8	49,493	Merry Wives of Windsor	Comedy
9	50,826	Pericles	History
10	57,020	King John	History
11	57,220	Troilus and Cressida	Tragedy
12	58,627	Comedy of Errors	Comedy
13	58,647	Henry VIII	History
14	64,691	Taming of the Shrew	Comedy
15	65,387	Richard II	History
16	65,965	Titus Andronicus	Tragedy
17	66,623	Henry VI, Part III	History
18	67,821	Henry VI, Part II	History
19	68,216	Winter's Tale	Comedy
20	68,661	Measure for Measure	Comedy
21	69,526	Love's Labour's Lost	Comedy
22	73,415	Henry VI, Part I	History
23	75,017	Sonnets	Sonnet
24	75,244	Richard III	History
25	83,909	Julius Caesar	Tragedy
26	84,906	Much Ado about Nothing	Comedy
27	86,489	Tempest	Comedy
28	87,052	Henry IV, Part II	History
29	90,032	Merchant of Venice	Comedy
30	90,359	All's Well That Ends Well	Comedy
31	91,234	Cymbeline	Tragedy
32	94,007	Coriolanus	Tragedy
33	94,436	Henry IV, Part I	History
34	98,390	As You Like It	Comedy
35	104,320	Henry V	History
36	108,614	Antony and Cleopatra	Tragedy
37	109,875	Twelfth Night	Comedy
38	111,777	Midsummer Night's Dream	Comedy
39	156,691	King Lear	Tragedy
40	182,578	Othello	Tragedy
41	259,828	Romeo and Juliet	Tragedy
42	297,381	Hamlet	Tragedy
43	328,213	Macbeth	Tragedy

Last updated on July 23, 2021 at 3:00 am (GMT-7)

There have been 7,509,579 total searches since search logging began on September 22, 2012. Of those, 3,804,533 (50.7%) 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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