Abstract:Shakespeare’s sonnets lay claim to a quality of liveliness as both an effect of reading and an intrinsic feature of the verse that parallels the physical life of the human body. In this essay, I will argue that the term character provides one way to conceptualize both the sonnets’ internal aspirations to immortality and the ways in which successive generations of readers participate in perpetuating their and their addressee’s life, allowing the poems to create a temporal and physical present for themselves. The sonnets’ treatment of the term character—and particularly their implicit allusions to the fashionable new skill of shorthand transcription of “taking by charactery”—highlights the practical and ethical challenges of locating poetic immortality between the engagement of readers and the liveness, and liveliness, of verse. As recording technology and as a method of writing that combines idiosyncrasy and, paradoxically, both secrecy and openness, shorthand provides a theoretical model for reading Shakespeare’s sonnets. Understanding Shakespeare’s use of the term character has broad implications not only for our understanding of the immortality topos but also for theories of reading and writing.

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保留角色：莎士比亚十四行诗中的速记和不朽主题

摘要：莎士比亚的十四行诗声称其具有活泼的品质，既具有阅读效果，又具有与人体物理生活平行的诗歌固有特征。在本文中，我将争辩说，“性格”一词提供了一种概念，既可以表达十四行诗对永生的内在渴望，也可以概念化连续几代读者参与使他们及其收信人的生活永存的方式，从而使诗歌创造出一种时间性的和自己的身体存在。十四行诗对“性格”一词的处理，尤其是对“按性取物”的速记速写的时兴新技巧的隐含暗示，突显了将诗意的不朽定位在读者的参与与活泼与活泼之间的实践和道德挑战。 ，经文。速记作为一种记录技术和一种将特质性，以及矛盾性，保密性和开放性相结合的写作方法，为阅读莎士比亚的十四行诗提供了理论模型。理解莎士比亚对“性格”一词的使用不仅对我们对永生不朽的理解有广泛的意义，而且对阅读和写作的理论也有广泛的意义。