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Most-searched works within OSS

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

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

There have been 12,676,483 total searches since search logging began on September 22, 2012. Of those, 6,959,935 (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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