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Goneril is a character in William Shakespeare's tragic play King Lear (1605). She is the eldest of King Lear 's three daughters. Along with her sister Regan , Goneril is considered a villain , obsessed with power and overthrowing her elderly father as ruler of the kingdom of Britain.
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For example, some of the names of the main characters in the novel are reminiscent of their Shakespearean counterparts. Larry is Lear, Ginny is Goneril, Rose is Regan, and Caroline is Cordelia. The role of the Cooks' neighbors, Harold Clark and his sons Loren and Jess, also rework the importance of Gloucester, Edgar and Edmund in King Lear.
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Lear and his followers are aware of a coldness to them by Regan and her household. Regan eventually condemns the taunting of Lear's Fool and the noise of Lear's knights and ask the king to cut back his retinue. Lear curses Regan; Goneril supports her sister, and they both finally insist that the King get rid of all his followers.
Shakespeare gave the old story a tragic ending.. In Shakespeare's version, Lear, King of Britain, is growing old, and decides to divide his kingdom among his three daughters – Goneril, wife of the Duke of Albany, Regan, wife of the Duke of Cornwall, and the youngest daughter, Cordelia, sought in marriage by the Duke of Burgundy and the King of France.
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-Regan's falsely flattering speech to King Lear, King Lear 1.1.67–74. [2] Later in the play, Lear leaves his kingdom to live with Goneril. She rejects him due to his refusal to give up his knights. After Lear leaves Goneril's house, he asks Regan to take him in. She tells him he has too many servants and knights, just as Goneril had.