One possibility for how Shakespeare spent these missing
years, embraced with enthusiasm by some scholars, is that he
didn’t come to London by any direct route, but rather went to
northern England, to Lancashire, as a recusant Catholic. The
idea was first put forward as long ago as 1937 but has gained
momentum in recent years. As it now stands it is a complicated
and ingenious theory based (as I believe its proponents
would freely enough concede) on a good deal of supposition.
The gist of it is that Shakespeare may have passed his time in
the north as a tutor and possibly as an actor (we must, after all,
get him ready for a theatrical career soon afterward), and that
the people responsible for this were Roman Catholics.
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