Most-searched works within OSS

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#	Search count	Work	Genre
1	186,840	All's Well That Ends Well	Comedy
2	206,254	Antony and Cleopatra	Tragedy
3	179,728	As You Like It	Comedy
4	117,393	Comedy of Errors	Comedy
5	178,708	Coriolanus	Tragedy
6	183,670	Cymbeline	Tragedy
7	463,972	Hamlet	Tragedy
8	187,131	Henry IV, Part I	History
9	172,551	Henry IV, Part II	History
10	194,466	Henry V	History
11	152,456	Henry VI, Part I	History
12	147,843	Henry VI, Part II	History
13	138,028	Henry VI, Part III	History
14	133,705	Henry VIII	History
15	155,003	Julius Caesar	Tragedy
16	126,901	King John	History
17	261,430	King Lear	Tragedy
18	143,654	Love's Labour's Lost	Comedy
19	45,976	Lover's Complaint	Poem
20	506,545	Macbeth	Tragedy
21	134,427	Measure for Measure	Comedy
22	158,323	Merchant of Venice	Comedy
23	105,020	Merry Wives of Windsor	Comedy
24	190,407	Midsummer Night's Dream	Comedy
25	150,964	Much Ado about Nothing	Comedy
26	305,806	Othello	Tragedy
27	35,275	Passionate Pilgrim	Poem
28	105,741	Pericles	History
29	10,777	Phoenix and the Turtle	Poem
30	109,160	Rape of Lucrece	Poem
31	133,269	Richard II	History
32	153,150	Richard III	History
33	396,110	Romeo and Juliet	Tragedy
34	146,749	Sonnets	Sonnet
35	127,256	Taming of the Shrew	Comedy
36	162,893	Tempest	Comedy
37	105,287	Timon of Athens	Tragedy
38	131,681	Titus Andronicus	Tragedy
39	131,419	Troilus and Cressida	Tragedy
40	202,736	Twelfth Night	Comedy
41	90,481	Two Gentlemen of Verona	Comedy
42	85,383	Venus and Adonis	Poem
43	148,700	Winter's Tale	Comedy

Last updated on April 22, 2025 at 3:00 am (GMT-7)

There have been 12,966,584 total searches since search logging began on September 22, 2012. Of those, 7,107,369 (54.8%) 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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