Well you don't get a lot of working class types at the heavily subsidised theatre seats in Stratford do you? You certainly don't get them guffawing at Shakespeare's witless jokes if they are there -those are upper class expressions of merriment, that I hear. Its like traditional folksong - you've got to be bloody intelligent to find the entertainment value.

Really Brian, you can't see the socially divisive nature of traditional folksong, I'm sorry. I think its a very intentional strand as well.