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Most-searched works within OSS

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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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