The following list gives Shakespeare's plays in order of popularity as taken from the Shakespeare Centre Library's database of SMT/RSC productions 1879-2003. It is based on the number of productions at all theatres and on tour:

• As You Like It
• Twelfth Night
• The Taming of the Shrew
• Hamlet
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Much Ado About Nothing
• The Merchant of Venice
• Macbeth
• The Merry Wives of Windsor
• Romeo and Juliet