Order vs authority

• Albany is 'a deliberately weak image of the restoration of order' - Fintan O'Toole 
• 'Lear is mentally a child' - Knight  
• The play is 'a microcosm of the human race' - Knights  
• Lear is 'ridiculous, naïve, and stupid' - Jan Kott 
• 'Chaos from conflict of authority is the very essence of the play' - John Draper  
• 'All bonds, all laws, whether divine, natural or human, are broken.' - Jan Kott 
• 'Everything that distinguishes a man is lost'  
• 'A family tragedy but also a story of whole society in moral and political chaos' - Jan Kott