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.

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 The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1952 ), Dame Edith Evans reprised her celebrated interpretation of Lady Bracknell ; The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1992 ) by Kurt Baker used an all-black cast ; and Oliver Parker's The Importance of Being Earnest ( 2002 ) incorporated some material cut during the preparation of the original stage production.

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.

Additional theatre credits include The Merchant of Venice, Love's Labour's Lost, Much Ado About Nothing, Forty Carats, And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, The Plough and the Stars, The Glass Menagerie, Morning's at Seven, Awake and Sing !, The Octette Bridge Club, Love Letters, Man and Superman, The Importance of Being Earnest, The School for Scandal, The Balcony, for which she won a Distinguished Performance Obie Award, and Black Comedy / White Lies, for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play.

* Pippin, Robert B. Hollywood Westerns and American Myth: The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy ( Yale University Press, 2010 ) 208 pp.

* The Importance of Ecovillage Movement for our planet

* The Importance of Being Cilia Accessible article at Howard Hughes Medical Institute on the importance and extensive use of cilia and basal bodies in many organ systems of human physiology, including for transfer of retinal nutrients.

He returned to London for the 1933 – 34 Old Vic Season and was engaged in four Shakespeare roles ( as Macbeth and Henry VIII, Angelo in Measure for Measure and Prospero in The Tempest ) and also as Lopakhin in The Cherry Orchard, Canon Chasuble in The Importance of Being Earnest, and Tattle in Love for Love.

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.

* Pippin, Robert B. Hollywood Westerns and American Myth: The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy ( Yale University Press, 2010 ) 208 pp.

The incident was not repeated, the play received moderately good reviews and had a modest run of four weeks, before being taken off to make way for Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, which Alexander thought would have better prospects for the coming Season.

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 ).

* 1953 BAFTA Film Award for Best Newcomer to Film for The Importance of Being Earnest-nominated

In the same year, she portrayed Cecily in the comedy The Importance of Being Earnest, a movie adaptation of the play by Oscar Wilde ; she received a Teen Choice Award nomination for her performance.

The Water Treatment Works is next to the Sunnyside Reservoir and the Stain Hill Reservoirs-sites of Metropolitan Importance for Nature Conservation and contains flower-rich grassland and habitats for water birds.

Barnet describes its 16 main open spaces as ' premier parks ', nine of which achieved a Green Flag Award for 2008 / 9: The borough has sixty-seven Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation, eight Local Nature Reserves, and it is jointly responsible with the London Borough of Brent for the Welsh Harp ( Brent ) Reservoir, which is a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

* Francis Blackburne-A Serious Inquiry into the Use and Importance of External Religion

**" Serious Considerations on Various Subjects of Importance by John Woolman, of Mount-Holly, New-Jersey, with some of his dying expressions.

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.

* February 14 – Oscar Wilde's last play The Importance of Being Earnest is first shown at St. James ' Theatre in London.

The title means " The Importance of Education " in Latin and is drawn from the first line of the declaration, as is customary with Roman Catholic documents.

* 1975: The Convention on Wetlands of International Importance ( Ramsar Convention ) comes into force, and its secretariat is administered from the IUCN's headquarters

The Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, especially as Waterfowl Habitat, or Ramsar Convention, is an international treaty designed to address global concerns regarding wetland loss and degradation.

In Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest there is an exchange between Jack Worthing and Lady Bracknell about his suitability as a match for her daughter Gwendolen.

It is also an Area of Archaeological Importance under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979.

In addition, it is included in the list of " Wetlands of International Importance ".

It is on the Albert Canal and the European route E313, the highway between Antwerp and Liège, one of the reasons why it was the place for the first Belgian " Industrial Zone of National Importance " in the 1960s.

The Ramsar Convention ( The Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, especially as Waterfowl Habitat ) is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands, i. e., to stem the progressive encroachment on and loss of wetlands now and in the future, recognizing the fundamental ecological functions of wetlands and their economic, cultural, scientific, and recreational value.

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 Heath is a Site of Metropolitan Importance for Nature Conservation, and part of Kenwood is a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

Studenica was declared Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance in 1979, and it is protected by Republic of Serbia, and in 1986 UNESCO included Studenica monastery on the list of World Heritage Sites, with the description:

The first of the IITs to be established, it is recognised as an Institute of National Importance by the government of India.

*: Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ( Cecily is making a catty remark to Miss Fairfax, a Londoner, by using " common " in two senses, namely " numerous " and " vulgar " as in the expression " common thief.

Mac Liammóir is the subject of the 1990 play The Importance of Being Micheál ( also published as a book ) by John Keyes.