In his book Adventures in the arts: informal chapters on painters, vaudeville and poets Marsden Hartley included an essay on " The Importance of Being ' Dada '".

* Machan, Tibor, Classical Individualism: The Supreme Importance of Each Human Being, 1998, Routledge.

( In 1996, the collection was reissued with a new King essay, " The Importance of Being Bachman.

Many elements of the screwball genre can be traced back to such stage plays as Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It and A Midsummer Night's Dream and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.

The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde.

Its high farce and witty dialogue have helped make The Importance of Being Earnest Wilde's most enduringly popular play.

The Importance of Being Earnest has been revived many times since its premiere.

In July 1894 he mooted his idea for The Importance of Being Earnest to Sir George Alexander, the actor-manager of St. James's Theatre.

In contrast to much theatre of the time, The Importance of Being Earnests light plot does not tackle serious social and political issues, something of which contemporary reviewers were wary.

The Importance of Being Earnest is Wilde's most popular work and continually revived today.

Richard Ellmann says that The Importance of Being Earnest touched on many themes Wilde had been building since the 1880s – the languor of aesthetic poses was well established and Wilde takes it as a starting point for the two protagonists.

By contrast, the humour and transformation in The Importance of Being Earnest is much lighter in tone, though Algernon's protest at his putative arrest, " Well I really am not going to be imprisoned in the suburbs for dining in the west-end!

Wilde's two final comedies, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, were still on stage in London at the time of his prosecution, and they were soon closed as the details of his case became public.

The Importance of Being Earnests popularity has meant it has been translated into many languages, though the homophonous pun in the title (" Ernest ", a masculine proper name, and " earnest ", the virtue of steadfastness and seriousness ) poses a special problem for translators.

Aside from multiple " made-for-television " versions, The Importance of Being Earnest has been adapted for the English-language cinema at least three times, first in 1952 by Anthony Asquith who adapted the screenplay and directed it.

An Indian version of The Importance of Being Earnest in Telugu by the name " Ashta Chamma " was released in 2008 and was a critical and commercial success.

In 1911 The Importance of being Earnest was revived by Alexander in St. James's ; he and Aynesworth resumed their lead roles.

As Wilde's work came to be read and performed again, it was The Importance of being Earnest which saw the most productions.

As the happy couples embrace — Jack and Gwendolen, Algernon and Cecily, and even Dr. Chasuble and Miss Prism — Lady Bracknell complains to her newfound relative: “ My nephew, you seem to be displaying signs of triviality .” “ On the contrary, Aunt Augusta ”, he replies, “ I ’ ve now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of being Earnest .”

Max Beerbohm called this play Wilde's " finest, most undeniably his own ", saying that in his other comedies — Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband — the plot, following the manner of Victorien Sardou, is unrelated to the theme of the work, while in Earnest the story is " dissolved " into the form of the play.

To commemorate the centenary of the first performance of The Importance of Being Earnest, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a radio adaptation on 13 February 1995 ; directed by Glyn Dearman, it featured Judi Dench as " Lady Bracknell ", Sir Michael Hordern as " Lane ", Michael Sheen as " Jack Worthing ", Martin Clunes as " Algernon Moncrieff ", John Moffatt as " Rev.

She reprised her stage roles of the headmistress alongside Alastair Sim in The Happiest Days of Your Life ( 1950 ) and Miss Prism in Anthony Asquith's film adaptation of The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1952 ).

* The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1952 )

She won the role of Cecily in Anthony Asquith's 1952 film version of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest ( BAFTA nomination for Most Promising Newcomer ).

Perhaps her most famous role was Gwendolen in The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1952 ).

Greenwood also made several memorable screen appearances, most notably as Gwendolen in The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1952 ) and as Sibella in the black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets ( 1949 ).

* The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1952 )

The 1950s also saw Redgrave in The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1952 ), The Dambusters ( 1954 ), 1984 ( 1956 ), and The Quiet American ( 1958 ).

* The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1952 )

He is best remembered for his roles as the Sultan in The Thief of Bagdad ( 1940 ), the poetically-inclined hangman in Kind Hearts and Coronets ( 1949 ) and as Dr. Chasuble in The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1952 ).

* The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1952 ) as Canon Chasuble

Evans was particularly well known for portraying haughty aristocratic ladies, as in two of her most famous roles: Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest ( both on stage and in the 1952 film ), and Miss Western in the 1963 film of Tom Jones.

In 1952, she reprised her celebrated stage role as Lady Bracknell in Anthony Asquith's screen version of The Importance of Being Earnest.

His other notable films include Pygmalion ( 1938 ), French Without Tears ( 1940 ), The Way to the Stars ( 1945 ), and a 1952 adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.

His later films included Rattigan's The Winslow Boy ( 1948 ) and The Browning Version ( 1951 ), and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1952 ).

* The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1952 )

* The Importance of Being Earnest, 1952

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* Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest on UK tour ( Dublin, Limerick, Belfast, Edinburgh, Leeds, Liverpool, Eastbourne and Bournemouth ), 1957

While popular farces and melodramas like the stage adaptation of Trilby anchored the repertoire ( the production ran for an extraordinary 260 performances ), Tree also encouraged the new drama, staging Maeterlinck's The Intruder ( 1890 ), Ibsen's An Enemy of the People ( 1893 ) and Wilde's A Woman of No Importance ( 1893 ), among others.

The studio has since begun to produce theatrical films again, such as Lucky Break ( 2001 ), The Importance of Being Earnest ( 2002 ), and Valiant ( 2005 ).

Gielgud had triumphs in many other plays, notably his greatest popular success Richard of Bordeaux ( 1933 ) ( a romantic version of the story of Richard II ), The Importance of Being Earnest which he first performed at the Lyric Hammersmith in 1930 and which remained in his repertory until 1947, and a legendary production of Romeo and Juliet ( 1935 ) which Gielgud directed and alternated the roles of Romeo and Mercutio with a young Laurence Olivier in his first professional Shakespearean leading role.

But Gielgud was best known for directing productions in which he also starred, including his greatest commercial success Richard of Bordeaux ( 1933 ), his definitive production of The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1939, 1942, 1947 ), Medea with Judith Anderson's Tony Award-winning performance of the title role with Gielgud supporting her as Jason ( 1947 ), The Lady's Not for Burning ( 1949 ) that won Richard Burton his first notoriety as an actor, and Ivanov ( 1965 ).

Other performances which many considered definitive were as Millamant in The Way of the World ( 1924 ), Rosalind in As You Like It ( 1926 and 1936 ), the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet ( 1932 – 35 and 1961 ), and, most notably, as Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1939 ), a role with which she became identified in the public's mind ( in particular for her drippingly sarcastic delivery of the line: " A handbag ?").

Lin's first best sellers were My Country and My People () ( 1935 ) and The Importance of Living () ( 1937 ), written in English in a charming style.