VILLAINOUS Female Shakespeare Monologue TUTORIAL | Goneril (King Lear) "This admiration, sir..."

Fierce female Shakespeare monologue that shows strength, attitude, and pointed patronizing. Goneril is King Lear's oldest daughter who's telling off her disrespectful dad in this final-straw speech. She's known as a villain, but as we explore the reasons for her RAGE, I gotta say... I GET IT 🔥

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King Lear by William Shakespeare
Act 1 Scene 4, in Goneril's home
GONERIL
This... admiration, sir, is much o' th' savour
Of other your new pranks. I do beseech you
To understand my purposes aright.
As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.
Here do you keep a hundred knights and squires;
Men so disorder'd, so debosh'd, and bold
That this our court, infected with their manners,
Shows like a riotous inn. Epicurism and lust
Make it more like a tavern or a brothel
Than a grac'd palace. The shame itself doth speak
For instant remedy. Be then desir'd
By her that else will take the thing she begs
A little to disquantity your train,
And the remainder that shall still depend
To be such men as may besort your age,
Which know themselves, and you.
...
Do you mark that, my lord?

(Images Used)
KING LEAR, Interlochen Shakespeare Festival 2023
Set Design, Edward T. Morris
Courtesy of Interlochen Center for the Arts

MACBETH, Shakespearemachine 2018
Directed by Nick Tash

▼ VIDEO CHAPTERS ▼
0:00 Welcome!
1:49 King Lear recap
7:57 The speech right before
13:00 WHY they say she's evil
17:26 Line-by-line explanation
41:48 Moment after
50:25 Monologue performance
51:48 What'd you think?

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