This essay draws upon the work of Erving Goffman and Michael Silverstein to read Shakespeare’s first poem as a guide to mastering the burgeoning early modern art of conversation. The epyllion follows the conversation manuals of its day in embracing the aphorism as a charismatic form of talk, but it departs from its precedents in attributing to the aphorism an overtly erotic force. By according to the aphorism the power to turn conversation into an erotic encounter, Venus and Adonis elaborates its period’s most seductive fantasy of talk.

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本文借鉴了欧文·高夫曼（Erving Goffman）和迈克尔·西尔弗斯坦（Michael Silverstein）的作品来阅读莎士比亚的第一首诗，以此作为掌握新兴的现代对话艺术的指南。依从时代的谈话手册，以一种超凡脱俗的谈话方式来接受格言，但它不同于将格言色情归因于格言的先例。通过这种格言，维纳斯和阿多尼斯将谈话转变为色情的力量，阐述了这一时期最诱人的谈话幻想。