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Regan is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's tragic play, ''King Lear''. ==Role in play== She is the middle child of King Lear's daughters and is married to the Duke of Cornwall. Similarly to her older sister, Goneril, Regan is attracted to Edmund.〔Auden, W.H. ''Lectures on Shakespeare''. Ed. Kirsch, Arthur. Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 2000. 219-230.〕 Both sisters are eager for power and even convince their father with false flattery to hand over his kingdom.
Later in the play, Lear leaves his kingdom to live with Goneril. She rejects him. After Lear leaves Goneril’s house, he asks Regan to take him in. She tells him he has too many servants and knights, just as Goneril had. Unwilling to budge, Regan drives Lear out into the storm. In the final Act, Goneril poisons Regan’s drink after learning that they share a desire for Edmund. Regan cries, “Sick, O sick!” to which Goneril replies in an aside, “If not, I’ll ne’er trust medicine,” (5.3. 97–98).〔Shakespeare, William. King Lear. ''The Norton Shakespeare: Tragedies''. Ed. Greenblatt, Cohen, Howard, Maus. W.W Norton and Company, 1997. 707-781.〕 Regan quickly becomes ill and dies. Stanley Cavell notes Regan's characteristic relish building upon and outdoing others' evils: "()he has no ideas of her own, her special vileness is always to increase the measure of pain that others are prepared to inflict; her mind itself is a lynch mob." (291)〔Cavell, Stanley. The Avoidance of Love. ''Must We Mean What We Say?''. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 1976. 267–353.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Regan (King Lear)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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