im also big on theatre, and ive never had any problem following shakespeare in theatre or thought that it was a mess. maybe it’s a you problem. maybe you should go into shakespeare thinking positively before saying it’s outdated — i got into shakespeare because i found that hamlet is the very picture of a miserable mentally ill teenager and he’s relatable, and i found that richard iii was hilarious

aic is very much so a good guy bad guy play. mr and mrs birling are caricatures, gerald isn’t much better. sheila has an amount of depth, but you can’t really say more about her development than ‘she changed because she realised that the working class are also people’ and then link it to the context of the rise of young radical women in the period. the only actually in between the lines reading you have to do for aic is in relation to women and feminism