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
Most of those who resurrect her do so to account for the psychology of Goneril, Regan and Cordelia.
From Washington Post • Dec. 5, 2021
But in stressing the legitimate grievances Goneril and Regan have toward their wrathful, capricious father, the production underplays what Cordelia knows about her sisters’ natures long before they reveal the full extent of their depravity.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 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
Lear again curses Goneril and does not want to go to her, continuing to hope that Regan will accept him with the whole hundred servants.
From Tolstoy on Shakespeare A Critical Essay on Shakespeare by Chertkov, V. G. (Vladimir Grigorevich)
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