Maybe William Gifford wrote Shakespeare. 
I love this seductive bonbon, this oddity: the 1999 version of 'Mansfield Park' written and directed by Patricia Rozema. I especially adore the casting: Alessandro Nivola (the very Southern husband in 'Junebug'!) as Henry Crawford....
Strange sidenote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_NivolaAlessandro NivolaFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAlessandro Antine Nivola (born June 28, 1972) is an American actor, perhaps best known for his roles in the films
Best Laid Plans, Jurassic Park III, Face/Off, and the first two movies of the
Goal! trilogy.
Personal lifeNivola was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His father,
Pietro S. Nivola, is a professor of political science who wrote the book
Laws of the Landscape: How Policies Shape Cities in Europe and America, and his mother is an artist. Nivola's paternal grandfather was the Italian sculptor
Costantino Nivola and his paternal grandmother,
Ruth Guggenheim, was a Jewish refugee from Germany. He has a brother,
Adrian, and attended Phillips Exeter Academy, and earned a degree in English from Yale. Nivola married British actress
Emily Mortimer in Chiltern, Buckinghamshire in January 2003; the couple have a son,
Samuel John, born in Westminster, London, on September 23, 2003. They also have a daughter,
May, born on January 15, 2010. They used to live in Los Angeles California in Echo Park.
They are currently living in Boerum Hill Brooklyn New York. He had fellow actor Heath Ledger as a neighbor.
