Abstract
This paper discusses the representation of popular discourse in Shakespeare’s 1Henry IV and Coriolanus. Whether in the tapster of the Boar’s Head or the mutinous citizens of Rome, poor eloquence and disrupted syntax emerge as permanent features of popular discourse. They bespeak simple-mindedness, doubt, flimsiness or mutability, and open interstices inviting manipulation, subversion or radical reversals, exploited either as sheer entertainment or in a political perspective. This paper finally addresses the dialectics of linguistic emergence and containment, and poses the question as to whether popular discourse can be more than a foil to the elaborate discourse of dominant ideology.
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