Identification: Please identify the excerpt below, identifyi…

Identification: Please identify the excerpt below, identifying items 1-8: Author (1pt) Name of work and date (1pt) Speaker(s) (1pt) Genre and prosody, if applicable (1pt) Original language(s) (1pt) Where in the work the excerpt occurs (1pt) Meaning (2pts) Significance and relationship to the whole work (2 pts) I – All wives of artisans should be very painstaking and diligent if they wish to have the necessities of life.  They should encourage their husbands or their workmen to get to work early in the morning and work until late, for mark our words, there is no trade so good that if you neglect your work you will not have difficulty putting bread on the table.  And besides encouraging the others, the wife herself should be involved in the work to the extent that she knows all about it so that she may know how to oversee his workers if her husband is absent, and reprove them if they do not do well…. And when customers come to her husband and try to drive a hard bargain, she ought to warn him solicitously to take care that he does not make a bad deal.

Take as many of the works that we have studied after the mid…

Take as many of the works that we have studied after the midterm into account as possible when addressing the prompt. It is not only important to discuss the work itself, but equally critical to discuss authorship, patronage and audience.  Please make sure to include an MLA works cited page. How do our various literary texts reflect and refract what is transpiring in their various cultures?  Discuss how these writings reflect or refract the movements of the seventeenth through very early twentieth century.