• defend occurs 71 times in 83 speeches within 27 works.
  
• Possibly related words: defended, defendant, defends, defending, defender, defenders
• Users have searched 421 times for defend in Open Source Shakespeare.

• The numbers below indicate the number of speeches
  in which defend appears in each listed work. If a single speech
  contains defend more than once, the speech will still be counted once
  as part of the total count.
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Antony and Cleopatra (1)
Coriolanus (4)
Hamlet (3)
Henry IV, Part I (2)
Henry V (6)
Henry VI, Part II (4)
Henry VI, Part III (3)
Julius Caesar (2)
King John (2)
King Lear (5)
Love's Labour's Lost (1)
Measure for Measure (2)
Merchant of Venice (4)
Merry Wives of Windsor (2)
Much Ado about Nothing (3)
Othello (3)
Pericles (4)
Rape of Lucrece (3)
Richard II (11)
Richard III (6)
Sonnets (1)
Tempest (1)
Timon of Athens (1)
Titus Andronicus (3)
Troilus and Cressida (3)
Twelfth Night (2)
Venus and Adonis (1)