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# | Search count | Work | Genre |
1 | 145,579 | Winter's Tale | Comedy |
2 | 83,933 | Venus and Adonis | Poem |
3 | 89,078 | Two Gentlemen of Verona | Comedy |
4 | 190,152 | Twelfth Night | Comedy |
5 | 129,347 | Troilus and Cressida | Tragedy |
6 | 129,755 | Titus Andronicus | Tragedy |
7 | 103,513 | Timon of Athens | Tragedy |
8 | 159,954 | Tempest | Comedy |
9 | 125,355 | Taming of the Shrew | Comedy |
10 | 144,111 | Sonnets | Sonnet |
11 | 390,175 | Romeo and Juliet | Tragedy |
12 | 150,682 | Richard III | History |
13 | 131,124 | Richard II | History |
14 | 107,410 | Rape of Lucrece | Poem |
15 | 10,574 | Phoenix and the Turtle | Poem |
16 | 104,019 | Pericles | History |
17 | 34,573 | Passionate Pilgrim | Poem |
18 | 298,891 | Othello | Tragedy |
19 | 148,680 | Much Ado about Nothing | Comedy |
20 | 187,024 | Midsummer Night's Dream | Comedy |
21 | 103,293 | Merry Wives of Windsor | Comedy |
22 | 155,920 | Merchant of Venice | Comedy |
23 | 132,295 | Measure for Measure | Comedy |
24 | 497,957 | Macbeth | Tragedy |
25 | 45,242 | Lover's Complaint | Poem |
26 | 141,769 | Love's Labour's Lost | Comedy |
27 | 258,042 | King Lear | Tragedy |
28 | 124,591 | King John | History |
29 | 152,759 | Julius Caesar | Tragedy |
30 | 131,977 | Henry VIII | History |
31 | 136,123 | Henry VI, Part III | History |
32 | 145,797 | Henry VI, Part II | History |
33 | 150,502 | Henry VI, Part I | History |
34 | 191,737 | Henry V | History |
35 | 170,547 | Henry IV, Part II | History |
36 | 184,431 | Henry IV, Part I | History |
37 | 458,222 | Hamlet | Tragedy |
38 | 181,486 | Cymbeline | Tragedy |
39 | 174,947 | Coriolanus | Tragedy |
40 | 110,594 | Comedy of Errors | Comedy |
41 | 171,246 | As You Like It | Comedy |
42 | 196,323 | Antony and Cleopatra | Tragedy |
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 12,676,422 total searches since search logging began on September 22, 2012. Of those, 6,959,921 (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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