Most-searched works within OSS

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#	Search count	Work	Genre
1	132,015	Measure for Measure	Comedy
2	145,272	Winter's Tale	Comedy
3	88,872	Two Gentlemen of Verona	Comedy
4	159,422	Tempest	Comedy
5	125,044	Taming of the Shrew	Comedy
6	148,353	Much Ado about Nothing	Comedy
7	186,366	Midsummer Night's Dream	Comedy
8	103,076	Merry Wives of Windsor	Comedy
9	155,523	Merchant of Venice	Comedy
10	189,706	Twelfth Night	Comedy
11	141,527	Love's Labour's Lost	Comedy
12	175,035	All's Well That Ends Well	Comedy
13	170,937	As You Like It	Comedy
14	110,365	Comedy of Errors	Comedy
15	145,547	Henry VI, Part II	History
16	150,307	Richard III	History
17	130,893	Richard II	History
18	103,791	Pericles	History
19	184,000	Henry IV, Part I	History
20	170,270	Henry IV, Part II	History
21	124,339	King John	History
22	150,243	Henry VI, Part I	History
23	135,913	Henry VI, Part III	History
24	131,768	Henry VIII	History
25	191,412	Henry V	History
26	83,781	Venus and Adonis	Poem
27	34,503	Passionate Pilgrim	Poem
28	10,545	Phoenix and the Turtle	Poem
29	107,236	Rape of Lucrece	Poem
30	45,173	Lover's Complaint	Poem
31	143,605	Sonnets	Sonnet
32	388,585	Romeo and Juliet	Tragedy
33	195,973	Antony and Cleopatra	Tragedy
34	129,082	Troilus and Cressida	Tragedy
35	129,424	Titus Andronicus	Tragedy
36	103,275	Timon of Athens	Tragedy
37	456,259	Hamlet	Tragedy
38	181,211	Cymbeline	Tragedy
39	152,405	Julius Caesar	Tragedy
40	495,955	Macbeth	Tragedy
41	256,539	King Lear	Tragedy
42	297,097	Othello	Tragedy
43	174,614	Coriolanus	Tragedy

Last updated on January 24, 2025 at 3:00 am (GMT-8)

There have been 12,596,172 total searches since search logging began on September 22, 2012. Of those, 6,940,425 (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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