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
Jackson doesn’t think Goneril and Regan are “naturally evil.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2019
“Glenda is so lean, and I don’t just mean that physically,” the actor Elizabeth Marvel, who plays Goneril, told me.
From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2019
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
Nobody thinks of condemning “Lear” because of the vileness of Goneril.
From The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources by MacDonald, Daniel J.
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