Here is the google list for pages containing references to some of Shakespeare’s most famous plays. The numbers might surprise you, as they did me. I would have thought that Hamlet would outrank most of all of the plays above it.
Shakespeare’s Plays
June 23, 2009
“Julius Caesar” + Shakespeare = 5,310,000
“Romeo and Juliet” + Shakespeare = 5,110,000
“Henry V” + Shakespeare = 2,560,000
“Midsummer Night’s Dream” + Shakespeare = 2,400,000
“The Tempest” + Shakespeare = 1,930,000
“Henry IV” + Shakespeare = 1,670,000 (Counts for Henry IV parts one and two)
“Merchant of Venice” + Shakespeare = 1,550,000
“Winter’s Tale” + Shakespeare = 989.000
“Hamlet” + Shakespeare = 903,000
“Richard II” + Shakespeare = 888,000
“Coriolanus” + Shakespeare = 593,000
“Macbeth” + Shakespeare = 588,000
“Othello” + Shakespeare = 321,000
Searches for three Shakespearean tragic heroes:
Guess where the greatest percentage of people want to know about Hamlet?
I can’t add anything to the many volumes dealing with Shakespeare’s work, ideas, and milieu. So here are a few of my favorite, less-known quotes:
“There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.” – Macbeth
“The strongest oaths are straw to the fire in the blood.” — The Tempest
“If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work.”
– Henry IV, Part One
That’s enough quotes, because a little more than a little is by much too much.
June 29, 2009 at 1:51 am |
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I guess Julius Ceaser is helped out by the fact that he’s of historical interest too, the same would go for the Henry’s etc. The other’s that top the Dane have the added help of being periennials on exam board’s set texts. Except Winter’s Tale that I can’t explain.
Feargy
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