In which Shakespeare play does the character Goneril appear?
Goneril Goneril Goneril is a character in 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. Her aggressiveness is a rare trait for a female character in Elizabethan literature. Shakespeare based the character on "Gonorilla", a personage described by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his pseudohistorical chronicle "Historia regum Britanniae" ("History of the Kings of Britain", ) as the eldest of the British king Lear's three daughters, alongside Regan and Cordeilla
Goneril Goneril's actions and denounces her, but she questions his manhood. In the play's final act, as the British forces battle with the French army (led by Cordelia), Goneril discovers that Regan is also pursuing Edmund, so she poisons her offstage to ensure Regan does not marry him. After Regan dies, Goneril kills herself. There is little explanation for her suicide, as it seems uncharacteristic of the self-serving woman presented throughout the play, but it is inferred that the cause of her suicide is a mixture of the thwarting of her plans and her confession to poisoning Regan. Goneril is cruel