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
In “Romeo and Juliet,” Mercutio famously declares, “A plague o’ both your houses,” while in “King Lear,” the doddering royal spits an insulting “plague-sore” at his daughter Goneril.
From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2020
Eyre offered Thompson the role of Goneril, Lear’s eldest, and cast Watson and Pugh in the respective roles of Regan and Cordelia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2018
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 V. G. (Vladimir Grigorevich) Chertkov
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