In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet the kindly old Polonius sends his son, Laertes, into the world with some wise, fatherly advice.  “Neither a borrower nor a lender be.”  “Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice.”  And, my personal favorite, “to thine own self be true.”  However, I would have given my son one more piece of advice.  I would have told him that, above all, it is important to be earnest.  And no such lesson could have been better taught than Oscar Wilde’s play The Importance of Being Earnest showing for one weekend only at Artistic Synergy of Baltimore (Rosedale,

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