<?xml version="1.0"?>
<oembed><version>1.0</version><provider_name>UConn Today</provider_name><provider_url>https://today.uconn.edu</provider_url><author_name>Betsy Surprenant</author_name><author_url>https://today.uconn.edu/author/bsurprenant/</author_url><title>Mortally wounded by his own hand, Antony lies dying in the arms of his queen. Cleopatra will soon follow and Octavian, first Emperor of Rome, will declare that they be buried side by side.</title><type>rich</type><width>600</width><height>338</height><html>&lt;blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="yOpbwEDaDN"&gt;&lt;a href="https://today.uconn.edu/2010/12/re-interpreting-shakespeare/antonyandcleopatra118_lg/"&gt;Mortally wounded by his own hand, Antony lies dying in the arms of his queen. Cleopatra will soon follow and Octavian, first Emperor of Rome, will declare that they be buried side by side.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://today.uconn.edu/2010/12/re-interpreting-shakespeare/antonyandcleopatra118_lg/embed/#?secret=yOpbwEDaDN" width="600" height="338" title="&#x201C;Mortally wounded by his own hand, Antony lies dying in the arms of his queen. Cleopatra will soon follow and Octavian, first Emperor of Rome, will declare that they be buried side by side.&#x201D; &#x2014; UConn Today" data-secret="yOpbwEDaDN" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;script&gt;
/*! This file is auto-generated */
!function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&amp;&amp;d.addEventListener&amp;&amp;"undefined"!=typeof URL&amp;&amp;(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&amp;&amp;!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i&lt;o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i&lt;a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&amp;&amp;(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3&lt;(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r&lt;200&amp;&amp;(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&amp;&amp;(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&amp;&amp;n.host===r.host&amp;&amp;l.activeElement===s&amp;&amp;(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r&lt;s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document);
//# sourceURL=https://today.uconn.edu/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js
&lt;/script&gt;
</html><thumbnail_url>https://today.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/AntonyandCleopatra118_lg.jpg</thumbnail_url><thumbnail_width>600</thumbnail_width><thumbnail_height>399</thumbnail_height></oembed>

<!--
Performance optimized by W3 Total Cache. Learn more: https://www.boldgrid.com/w3-total-cache/?utm_source=w3tc&utm_medium=footer_comment&utm_campaign=free_plugin

Object Caching 72/87 objects using Redis
Page Caching using Disk: Enhanced (Requested URI contains query) 

Served from: today.uconn.edu @ 2026-05-06 13:31:24 by W3 Total Cache
-->