Lewis, Leopold Davis
LEWIS, LEOPOLD DAVIS
LEWIS, LEOPOLD DAVIS (1828–1890), English playwright. The son of a London physician, Levy's grisly melodrama, The Bells, made famous by Sir Henry Irving's London production of 1871, was an English adaptation of Le Juif polonais (1862), by the French writers Erckmann-Chatrian. A London lawyer, Lewis also wrote other plays, including The Wandering Jew (1873), and a collection of short stories, A Peal of Merry Bells (1880).
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