(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.
The opening scene includes a street fight!
Queen Elizabeth I loved his plays.
His mother’s name was Mary Arden.
The Globe Theatre burned down in 1613.
“O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?” means “Why are you Romeo?”
His oldest daughter was named Susanna.
His tombstone has a curse warning people not to move his bones!
Shakespeare invented over 1,700 English words!
Another theme is how young people challenge tradition.
His plays were first collected in a book called the First Folio.
He had twins named Hamnet and Judith.
“Two households, both alike in dignity…” begins the play.
Romeo and Juliet is one of his most famous plays.
Shakespeare is buried in Holy Trinity Church in Stratford.
He helped build the Globe Theatre.
His father was a glove-maker named John Shakespeare.
He married Anne Hathaway.
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose…” is about identity.
He wrote comedies, tragedies, and histories.
He died in 1616.
The “Prologue” tells us what will happen in the play.
Anne Hathaway was 8 years older than him.
Shakespeare was born in 1564.
He also wrote 154 sonnets.
The story takes place in Verona, Italy.
It’s about two young lovers from feuding families.
Words like “lonely” and “eyeball” come from him.
Hamnet died when he was only 11.
Later, King James I became his patron.
“A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life” comes next.
It was rebuilt later near the same spot.
He wrote about 37 plays.
Boys played the parts of women!
Shakespeare moved to London to become a playwright.
He lived over 400 years ago!
He was the third of eight children.
He wrote for both commoners and royalty.
They had three children.
He often used iambic pentameter, a rhythmic pattern.
People called the cheapest audience members “groundlings.”
Women weren’t allowed to act on stage in his time.
The company he worked for was called The King’s Men.
The Globe Theatre was round and open to the sky.
“My only love sprung from my only hate!” shows Juliet’s shock.
“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow.”
One theme is how hatred destroys love.
He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England.
The play explores love, fate, and family conflict.