Ian Lancashire
University of Toronto
for the Shakespeare Association of America
San Francisco 1999
Machina, ae, f. g. An instrument or engine, a framing or workemanship: a
scaffold in building: also things craftily invented, subtill deuises or
shiftes: craftie meanes to deceiue: also the place ouer the stage, from
whence some god appeared or spake.
© Feb. 1999