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

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