For the first time in one volume comes "The David Ives Trilogy." David Ives's show-stopping series of rediscovered masterpieces of French comedy, all three commissioned by the Shakespeare Thearre Company. "The Heir Apparent," "The Liar," and "The Metromaniacs" together span nearly a century of French comedy, from 1643 to 1738, all reinvigorated through Ives's inimitable rhymed-verse couplets, ingeniously witty wordplay, and diabolically clever dramaturgy. David Ives has also adapted Moliere's "Le Misanthrope" (as The School for Lies), Corneille's "Le menteur"(as The Liar), and Regnard's "Le legataire universel" (as The Heir Apparent). He is the author of "All in the Timing," "Taming of Venus" (both the play and the Roman Polanski film); "Time Lies," "Lives of the Saints," "New Jerusalem," and "Is He Dead?" (adapted from Mark Twain). He lives in New York City.