 In 1902, he completed his major work, a drama entitled "Vlaicu Vodă" (based on the life of a 14th-century Wallachian Prince), one of the first important pieces of its kind in Romanian literature.Between 1905 and 1908, he was the head of the National Theatre Bucharest.In 1915, a mysterious attempt to have him killed resulted in paralysis — Davila was bedridden for the rest of his life, as a sanatorium patient.