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