The role Shakespeare played in the conflict, if any, has long been a topic of dispute among scholars.
The least disputed facts of the matter yield a schema like this: Apparently Jonson and Marston later came to terms and even collaborated with George Chapman on the play Eastward Hoe in 1605.
That play offended King James with its anti-Scottish satire, a part apparently written by Marston.
Shakespeare probably alludes to The War of the Theatres in a scene between Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern: Scholars differ over the true nature and extent of the rivalry behind the Poetomachia.
It has even been suggested that the playwrights involved had no serious rivalry and even admired each other, and that the "War" was a self-promotional publicity stunt, a "planned ... quarrel to advertise each other as literary figures and for profit.