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 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.

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.

The Harvard Medical School Department of Continuing Education continues to offer a course titled " Spirituality and Healing in Medicine ; The Importance of the Integration of Mind / Body Practices and Prayer " which The Mother Church has supported.

This sanctuary has also been designated as a Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention since May 1987.

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.

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

The European Union has recognised the park as a Site of Community Importance.

Since April 4, 1988, the Formigas Bank has the status of Nature Reserve and is protected by a decree in the Azorean Regional Assembly ( Regional Legislative Decree Nº11 / 88 / A ), but it is also considered a European Site of Community Importance ( Rede Natura 2000 ).

The Indian Parliament has declared the museum an Institution of National Importance.

A Woman of No Importance has been described as the " weakest of the plays Wilde wrote in the Nineties ".

This state University has got the cabinet approval from the Union government to transform it to an Institute of National Importance, namely, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology ( IIEST ).

The theater program has performed The Diary of Anne Frank, The Sound of Music, The Importance of Being Earnest, Seeking Higher Ground, and Beauty and the Beast, among many others.

Importance sampling consists of simulating the Monte Carlo paths using a different probability distribution ( also known as a change of measure ) that will give more likelihood for the simulated underlier to be located in the area where the derivative's payoff has the most convexity ( for example, close to the strike in the case of a simple option ).

She has also appeared in a number of British television series, including The Avengers ( 1967 ), Coronation Street as Inga Olsen in 1967 and Vanessa in 2009, The Saint ( 1968 ), The Brothers ( 1972-74, a regular leading role ), The Kelly Monteith Show ( 1979-80 ), a made-for-TV version of The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1985 ), and the ITV soap opera Crossroads, in which she played motel boss Nicola Freeman from 1985-87, and The Inspector Lynley Mysteries ( 2003-05 ) as the protagonist's mother.

The Nariva Swamp is the largest freshwater wetland in Trinidad and Tobago and has been designated a Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention.

The pub has been featured in many films, notably " A Man of No Importance ", starring Albert Finney.

MEPA has declared Ħarq Ħammiem cave and the full extent of the remnant valley system as an Area of Ecological Importance and Site of Scientific Importance as per Government Notice No. 370 / 08 in the Government Gazette dated April 23, 2008.

To underline the importance of the sanctuary, it has been added to the Specially Protected Areas of Mediterranean Importance ( SPAMI ) list of the 1999 Barcelona Convention.

Subsequently he was Secretary General of the Ramsar Convention on the Protection of Wetlands of International Importance, and from 2007 has been Chairman of the UK's statutory Joint Nature Conservation Committee.

David Horovitch has had a long and distinguished theatre career-appearing in productions including Honour, Charley's Aunt, An Inspector Calls, Racing Demon, The Importance of Being Earnest, One of Us, The School for Scandal, The Doll's House, The Tempest, Major Barbara, Seven Jewish Children and the original London cast of Forty Years On.

Polar Bear Provincial Park has been designated as a Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention since May 1987.

He has also returned to the Shaw Festival in 2004 to direct Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and in 2005 to direct R. C. Sherriff's Journey's End.

Most recently, these studios have again been used for making films, including Notting Hill and The Importance of Being Earnest.

The village and West Wycombe Park have been used as a location for numerous films, most notably The Duchess, The Importance of Being Earnest, I Capture the Castle and Dead Man's Folly.

In the first act of Oscar Wilde's The Importance Of Being Earnest ( 1895 ), cucumber sandwiches that have expressly been ordered and prepared for Lady Bracknell's expected visit are all voraciously eaten beforehand by her nephew and host, Algernon Moncrieff ; consequently he is forced to tell a little lie, with his butler's connivance: namely that " there were no cucumbers in the market this morning ... not even for ready money ".

NIT W was been given the status of Institute of National Importance ( INI ) on 15 August 2007.

* St Lucia Lake and the turtle beaches and coral reefs of Maputaland have been listed by the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance ( RAMSAR ).

On 15 August 2007 MNIT and all other NITs have been declared as Institutes of National Importance by the government of India under the National Institutes of Technology Act, 2007.

Out of 52 ghats used by pilgrims to take a holy bath in the lake, ten important ghats on the periphery of the lake, which have other contiguous ghats adjoining them, have also been declared as ' Monuments of National Importance '.