“Peter Burke, an amateur historian... has a theory Harold may have survived as a hermit for forty years.”
I have a theory myself. I think Harold was the person who, during his hermit days, originated the phrase, “I’ll keep an eye out for ya.”
I don’t mean to be nasty, but I’d like to see Mr. Burke’s bona fides on the subject.
LOL... the guy’s flatly wrong — Harold didn’t survive 40 years, he survived over five hundred years, and was the real author of Shakespeare’s plays.