In this BardCast™ Master class Alan explores the many coded clues that reveal the Bard was clearly an initiate of certain levels of Freemasonry (or, at that time, Rosicrucianism). Particular emphasis is placed on Level 28 (“The Knight of the Sun”) and Level 32 (“Master of the Royal Secret”) which have strong parallels to Edward de Vere’s poem “The Knight of the Tree of the Sun” (read aloud to Queen Elizabeth just before Oxford’s overwhelming wins in the 1581 royal tilts contests) and to passages in the play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (which hold never-before revealed clues to their “royal secret”).