Goneril - character description

Goneril -  Lear’s ruthless oldest daughter and the wife of the duke of Albany. Goneril is jealous, treacherous, and amoral. Shakespeare’s audience would have been particularly shocked at Goneril’s aggressiveness, a quality that it would not have expected in a female character. She challenges Lear’s authority, boldly initiates an affair with Edmund, and wrests military power away from her husband.

I really like playing Goneril because of her determination of cruelty and selfishness. She is a really cognitive, twisted and interesting character to play that is viciously aggressive and elusive by no means to get what she wants in the end.