 At the time, Davenant was promoting the project of an enormous new theatre near Fleet Street, a plan that would only have added to the competition faced by a struggling dramatist like Brome.In the alignment of theatrical rivalries of the day, Davenant and Brome were on opposite sides; when William Beeston lost control of his theatres and acting companies as a result of the Brome's play, control of those resources was given to Davenant by a royal warrant (27 June 1640).Brome's play was one element in the so-called "Second War of the Theatres," a literary conflict between professional playwrights, most notably Ben Jonson, and courtly amateurs and dilettantes like Suckling.