(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
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“My only love sprung from my only hate!” shows Juliet’s shock.
He helped build the Globe Theatre.
The story takes place in Verona, Italy.
He married her when he was 18.
Romeo and Juliet is one of his most famous plays.
He wrote comedies, tragedies, and histories.
The play explores love, fate, and family conflict.
He had twins named Hamnet and Judith.
He often used iambic pentameter, a rhythmic pattern.
The Globe Theatre burned down in 1613.
One theme is how hatred destroys love.
His mother’s name was Mary Arden.
It’s about two young lovers from feuding families.
His plays were first collected in a book called the First Folio.
He also wrote 154 sonnets.
“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow.”
People called the cheapest audience members “groundlings.”
Shakespeare is buried in Holy Trinity Church in Stratford.
Shakespeare was born in 1564.
He wrote for both commoners and royalty.
Anne Hathaway was 8 years older than him.
Women weren’t allowed to act on stage in his time.
Shakespeare invented over 1,700 English words!
Shakespeare moved to London to become a playwright.
Queen Elizabeth I loved his plays.
Words like “lonely” and “eyeball” come from him.
Hamnet died when he was only 11.
“A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life” comes next.
The opening scene includes a street fight!
His tombstone has a curse warning people not to move his bones!
They had three children.
His father was a glove-maker named John Shakespeare.
He died in 1616.
Plays at the Globe had no microphones or lights!
He lived over 400 years ago!
Another theme is how young people challenge tradition.
Boys played the parts of women!
He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England.
“O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?” means “Why are you Romeo?”
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose…” is about identity.
The Globe Theatre was round and open to the sky.
Later, King James I became his patron.
The company he worked for was called The King’s Men.
It was rebuilt later near the same spot.
He was the third of eight children.
He married Anne Hathaway.
The “Prologue” tells us what will happen in the play.
“Two households, both alike in dignity…” begins the play.