(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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He married her when he was 18.
Boys played the parts of women!
His father was a glove-maker named John Shakespeare.
Queen Elizabeth I loved his plays.
“My only love sprung from my only hate!” shows Juliet’s shock.
He lived over 400 years ago!
The opening scene includes a street fight!
Later, King James I became his patron.
Shakespeare is buried in Holy Trinity Church in Stratford.
It was rebuilt later near the same spot.
“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow.”
They had three children.
Shakespeare invented over 1,700 English words!
“A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life” comes next.
It’s about two young lovers from feuding families.
“O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?” means “Why are you Romeo?”
He wrote for both commoners and royalty.
He was the third of eight children.
He also wrote 154 sonnets.
His plays were first collected in a book called the First Folio.
“Two households, both alike in dignity…” begins the play.
His mother’s name was Mary Arden.
One theme is how hatred destroys love.
The play explores love, fate, and family conflict.
He wrote comedies, tragedies, and histories.
He married Anne Hathaway.
The Globe Theatre was round and open to the sky.
He wrote about 37 plays.
He often used iambic pentameter, a rhythmic pattern.
He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England.
People called the cheapest audience members “groundlings.”
His tombstone has a curse warning people not to move his bones!
The “Prologue” tells us what will happen in the play.
He had twins named Hamnet and Judith.
The Globe Theatre burned down in 1613.
His oldest daughter was named Susanna.
Women weren’t allowed to act on stage in his time.
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose…” is about identity.
The story takes place in Verona, Italy.
Shakespeare was born in 1564.
Shakespeare moved to London to become a playwright.
He died in 1616.
The company he worked for was called The King’s Men.
Plays at the Globe had no microphones or lights!
Words like “lonely” and “eyeball” come from him.
Another theme is how young people challenge tradition.
