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This Shakespeare Authorship blog considers evidence that Ben Jonson mocked Edward De Vere as the errant Amorphus of Cynthia’s Revels and that this portrayal parallels Jonson's attacks on the extravagance of Shakespeare's literary body. Shakespearean 'Errancy' also is figured in the disproportionate Droeshout Engraving - Jonson's Horatian 'branding' of Oxford's courtly Ovidian forms - entangling authorship with discourses of monstrosity, madness and the sublime.