Samuel Jonson's play Bartholomew Fair as the perfect depiction of UK & US Politicians

If one endeavours to anatomise the lawlessness of the marketplace you could do a lot worse than look to Samuel Jonson's play Bartholomew Fair.

Through the comments of his Puritan characters, Jonson, shows how the fair violates religious law, and he uses Adam Overdo, a Justice of the Peace, to rail against the ways the merchants continually violate the criminal law as well. As Jonson presents it, Bartholomew Fair is the original home and headquarters of all the charlatans, cheaters, and thieves in London,

 As grave as Jonson’s doubts about an unregulated market may be, in the end he seems to suggest that a regulated market would be a good deal worse, if only because the regulators (Politicians) are no better than the regulated.