Steven welcomes poet and antiquities dealer Philip Cooper to this episode to discuss Philip's work studying "Love's Martyr" and "The Phoenix And The Turtle," as well as various specific Shakespearean Sonnets and allusions within the plays that point to Edward de Vere's beliefs about his own origins.

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