(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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Women weren’t allowed to act on stage in his time.
The Globe Theatre burned down in 1613.
His plays were first collected in a book called the First Folio.
Queen Elizabeth I loved his plays.
He wrote about 37 plays.
“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow.”
Plays at the Globe had no microphones or lights!
One theme is how hatred destroys love.
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose…” is about identity.
“O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?” means “Why are you Romeo?”
The opening scene includes a street fight!
The Globe Theatre was round and open to the sky.
He also wrote 154 sonnets.
He died in 1616.
He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England.
Boys played the parts of women!
Romeo and Juliet is one of his most famous plays.
Shakespeare is buried in Holy Trinity Church in Stratford.
“A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life” comes next.
He had twins named Hamnet and Judith.
He married Anne Hathaway.
People called the cheapest audience members “groundlings.”
The company he worked for was called The King’s Men.
Shakespeare was born in 1564.
He wrote comedies, tragedies, and histories.
“My only love sprung from my only hate!” shows Juliet’s shock.
He wrote for both commoners and royalty.
They had three children.
It was rebuilt later near the same spot.
His oldest daughter was named Susanna.
The story takes place in Verona, Italy.
Shakespeare moved to London to become a playwright.
Shakespeare invented over 1,700 English words!
It’s about two young lovers from feuding families.
He married her when he was 18.
Another theme is how young people challenge tradition.
The “Prologue” tells us what will happen in the play.
He was the third of eight children.
Anne Hathaway was 8 years older than him.
His mother’s name was Mary Arden.
Later, King James I became his patron.
“Two households, both alike in dignity…” begins the play.
Words like “lonely” and “eyeball” come from him.
His father was a glove-maker named John Shakespeare.
He helped build the Globe Theatre.
He lived over 400 years ago!
Hamnet died when he was only 11.
His tombstone has a curse warning people not to move his bones!
He often used iambic pentameter, a rhythmic pattern.
The play explores love, fate, and family conflict.