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Goneril
[ gon-er-il ]
noun
- (in Shakespeare's King Lear ) the elder of Lear's two faithless daughters.
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King Lear becomes Lear texting “okay who wants a kingdom,” to which Goneril replies “me me I do.”
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By way of episodes the characteristic themes of Regan and Goneril, and then—a second subject—Cordelia, calm and tender.
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Goneril's steward appears, and behaves rudely to Lear, for which Kent knocks him down.
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But Regan says she will receive him only with twenty-five and then Lear makes up his mind to go back to Goneril who admits fifty.
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Goneril is glad but already anticipates with fear that Regan, now a widow, will deprive her of Edmund.
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Edmund leaves, and a conversation takes place between Goneril and her husband.
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