'The comic scenes of King Lear shed light on the play's more serious themes'. In light of this view, examine the significance of comedy in King Lear.

Firstly, interrogate the question. Find examples of comedy in the play that you feel confident writing about , then see if you can link to them to some of the play's more serious themes. Decide what you are going to take 'serious scenes' to mean. You could focus on the nature of the relationship between father and daughters, for instance, and then argue how comic scenes inform this relationship. Or you could take 'serious' to mean the descent of a powerful monarch into madness and perhaps use the character of the Fool to make a link between this and comedy. Essentially, you have a degree of freedom within this question so long as you clearly define your argument and your understanding of the question's terms in your introduction. A clearly road-mapped introduction will have you well on the way to hitting all the AOs in your answer.

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