Monologue

Goneril Monologue from King Lear

From King Lear by William Shakespeare

female · defiant · 54 sec

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Not only, sir, this your all-licens’d fool, But other of your insolent retinue Do hourly carp and quarrel; breaking forth In rank and not-to-be-endured riots. Sir, I had thought, by making this well known unto you, To have found a safe redress; but now grow fearful, By what yourself too late have spoke and done, That you protect this course, and put it on By your allowance; which if you should, the fault Would not scape censure, nor the redresses sleep, Which, in the tender of a wholesome weal, Might in their working do you that offence Which else were shame, that then necessity Will call discreet proceeding.

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Goneril confronts her father, King Lear, expressing her frustration over his foolishness and the chaos caused by his retinue, indicating a struggle for control and authority.

30s · anger · power · betrayal · family · authority

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