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Shakespeare Productions Seen: The Ranking

Often I'm asked, which Shakespeare play have I seen most often? The answer has more to do with prevalence of a play's production than my own personal favorites, because I will see any Shakespeare production I can get to. Thus, the following list isn't ranked according to my personal preferences but the general public's preferences (or, at least, those of theater impresarios). This list is only stage productions, not films or television broadcasts, but in the case of a tie I consider screen versions I've seen as a tiebreaker.

The order of this list will alter over time, I'm sure. Number of productions seen per play is in parenthesis.

  1. A Midsummer Night's Dream (34)
  2. Romeo and Juliet (34)
  3. Hamlet (29)
  4. Twelfth Night (28)
  5. Richard III (23)
  6. As You Like It (22)
  7. The Comedy of Errors (22)
  8. King Lear (21)
  9. Merchant of Venice (20)
  10. Much Ado About Nothing (20)
  11. The Taming of the Shrew (19)
  12. The Tempest (19)
  13. Macbeth (19)
  14. Henry IV, Part 1 (17, plus four conflations)
  15. Julius Caesar (17, plus one conflation)
  16. Othello (16)
  17. Merry Wives of Windsor (16)
  18. Love's Labours Lost (15)
  19. Two Gentlemen of Verona (15)
  20. The Winter's Tale (15)
  21. Antony and Cleopatra (14, plus one conflation)
  22. Measure for Measure (14)
  23. Henry V (13, plus two conflations)
  24. Henry IV, Part 2 (12, plus four conflations)
  25. Coriolanus (9, plus one conflation)
  26. Richard II (8, plus one conflation)
  27. Titus Andronicus (8)
  28. Pericles (8)
  29. All's Well that Ends Well (8)
  30. Cymbeline (8)
  31. King John (7)
  32. Timon of Athens (7)
  33. Troilus and Cressida (6)
  34. Henry VI, Part 1 (5, plus three conflations)
  35. Henry VI, Part 2 (5, plus three conflations)
  36. Henry VI, Part 3 (5, plus three conflations)
  37. Two Noble Kinsmen (5)
  38. Henry VIII (3)
  39. Arden of Faversham (3)
  40. Edward III (3)
  41. Cardenio (aka Double Falsehood) (1)
  42. The Spanish Tragedy (1)
  43. Sonnets (1)
  44. Venus and Adonis (1)
  45. The Rape of Lucrece (1)
  46. A Yorkshire Tragedy (1)

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