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Statistics for 'love'

Index Text Frequency
1 Sonnets 222
2 Two Gentlemen of Verona 187
3 Romeo and Juliet 163
4 As You Like It 137
5 A Midsummer Night's Dream 136
6 Love's Labour's Lost 129
7 Much Ado About Nothing 116
8 Othello 102
9 Twelfth Night 91
10 King Richard III 86
11 Hamlet 82
12 Troilus and Cressida 81
13 All's Well That Ends Well 80
14 The Taming of the Shrew 74
15 The Merchant of Venice 67
16 King Lear 60
17 The Merry Wives of Windsor 59
18 King Henry VI, Part 3 55
19 Antony and Cleopatra 51
20 King John 49
21 Julius Caesar 49
22 Coriolanus 47
23 King Henry V 47
24 The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus 45
25 Timon of Athens 43
26 King Richard II 41
27 King Henry IV, Part 1 37
28 King Henry VIII 35
29 Pericles 35
30 The Winter's Tale 34
31 King Henry VI, Part 1 33
32 Measure for Measure 31
33 King Henry VI, Part 2 29
34 King Henry IV, Part 2 28
35 Macbeth 24
36 The Rape of Lucrece 23
37 The Passionate Pilgrim 21
38 The Comedy of Errors 19
39 Cymbeline 17
40 The Tempest 14
41 A Lover's Complaint 10
42 The Phoenix and the Turtle 6