Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Don't Bother

This book retreads other (better) scholars' work and the "new" revelations are anywhere from 20 to 60 years old. Most of Wood's interesting material derives from E.A.J. Honigmann's classic "Shakespeare: The Lost Years" (1985, 2nd ed. 1999). Wood's fanciful conjectures about Robert Southwell & Shakespeare come from chapter 18 of Christopher Devlin's 1956 biography of Southwell. I don't have space for his other debts: Save your time and skip reading this one. If you like the pictures (which are good) wait for it to get remaindered (which won't be long). [If you need a good, well-written "popular" biography of Shakespeare get Anthony Burgess--and the Honigmann for supplementary material.] Unfortunately despite Michael Wood's enthusiasm for his subject there is no excuse for slovenly scholarship.