50 minSeason 1 • Episode 6
LatestAs Fanny visits her parents, calamity befalls the Bertrams: Henry runs off with Maria, Tom lies sick with fever and abandoned by his friends, and Edmund glimpses Mary's true character.
Mansfield Park is a British six-part television drama serial based on Jane Austen's 1814 novel of the same name. Produced by the BBC and adapted by Kenneth Taylor, it stars Sylvestra Le Touzel as Fanny Price, who is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, where she is treated poorly by most except her cousin Edmund. Her life is complicated by the arrival of the worldly Mary and Henry Crawford.
Acting
Le Touzel's Fanny: mousey, stubborn, impossible to ignore.
Production
BBC '83 budget showing—intimate, not glossy.
Creator
Ken Taylor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 1983 version is the most faithful to Austen's novel, including the controversial Portsmouth poverty scenes that most adaptations cut.
Fanny's infamous headache during the play rehearsals—read as genuine illness or strategic withdrawal? The adaptation leaves it deliciously ambiguous.
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