 Like the original Poetomachia or War of the Theatres of three decades earlier, the Second War of the Theatres involved Ben Jonson on one side and a set of rivals on the other.In the Second case, Ben Jonson and his supporters, notably Richard Brome, represented professional playwrights arrayed against the courtly amateurs like Suckling.Suckling's ridicule of the recently deceased Jonson in "The Goblins" provoked Brome to ridicule Suckling in his "The Court Beggar."