Which king had daughters named Cordelia, Regan and Goneril?
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
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