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Neill is transparent about editorial changes in orthography and punctuation, providing a list of "significant departures" (xl) at the end of the play.His editorial transparency is an improvement over Mulryne, who hides much of that.In the case of Neill's edition, I would have preferred to see textual variants on the page where they occur, below the text, but above the annotations/glosses.It's (mildly) annoying to have to keep flipping to the back of the play to see those textual variants.Of course, for readers who are not interested in textual criticism or editorial changes, it's just as irritating to see that information when you aren't interested in it.Hence the dilemma.Both editions provide excellent footnoted glosses and annotations, but Neill's are more extensive and robust, and therefore immensely helpful.There are nine critical essays covering a range of topics, but Neill has brilliantly added a heading/tagline at the beginning of each essay that describes its topic.Anyone perusing the essays with a particular idea in mind will find these taglines wonderfully helpful.The edition also includes five greyscale illustrations, but only one (a woodcut of the title page of the 1615 edition showing Hieronimo finding Horatio's body) is directly related to the play.The others deal with more general themes of fortune, love, and garden motifs.The "Sources and Biography" section offers excerpts from some seminal (i.e., Virgil) and contemporary primary sources.Like the illustrations, these resources will be helpful to some readers, but hardly to all.Still, they are nice to have.This thoughtful edition is well worth using and highly appropriate for use in any post-secondary educational context.
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