What Shakespearean king had three daughters: Regan, Goneril and Cordelia?
Goneril herself. While the reasons for Goneril's hatred of her father are never explicitly explained in the text, Stephen Reid hypothesizes that Goneril, as the eldest daughter, hated her father because Cordelia was his favourite. In Reid's eyes, "Lear's "actual" rejection of a daughter, Cordelia, awakened in both Goneril and Regan dim memories of their past and long repressed bitterness at his rejection of them, a bitterness they had never been able to express or come to terms with." Goneril Goneril is a character in Shakespeare's tragic play "King Lear" (1605). She is the eldest of King Lear's three daughters. Along
The History of King Lear the complete Shakespeare text in 1845. 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. The King decides that he will give the best part of the kingdom to the daughter who loves him most, and asks his three daughters to state how much they love him. Goneril and Regan make hypocritical, flattering speeches, and are