Goneril
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Nobody cheers for Goneril and Regan as they wreak destruction on their pitiable father.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026
Like Lear, Cox’s Logan seems to have “ever but slenderly known himself,” as Regan remarks to Goneril about their rash father.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2021
In a new production of “King Lear,” available on Amazon Prime from September 28th, she plays Goneril, opposite Anthony Hopkins in the title role.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 7, 2018
And that I started rooting for Goneril and, to a lesser extent, Regan is indicative, perhaps, of the unconscious influence of our current national mood.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2018
It suited Shakespeare's plot that the villain should be the bastard; that is all; and Lear's legitimate daughters Goneril and Regan are as base, as bad, and as cruelly ungrateful as Gloucester's illegitimate son.
From The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 by Various
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