For the first time together 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 Theatre 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...