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Written by Maggie Quale Shakespeare...a Feminist? If women's rights have dramatically improved since the 1600's, why has our definition of beauty remained static? Shakespeare's sonnets and poems like Venus and Adonis, both capture and deride the stereotype, demonstrating that all men do not value beauty above all else. Yet the delineation of the "perfect beauty" adored throughout the ages sounds shockingly similar to today's archetype. Simply gaze at any 6-foot, 100 pound, 12 year-old supermodel for evidence. There persists a formula for female beauty, even for today's independent, intelligent and increasingly equal woman. Consider this scene where Venus attempts to convince the faultless Adonis that she is worth his affections: "Thou canst not see one wrinkle in my brow; Mine eyes are gray and bright and quick in turning: My beauty as the spring doth yearly grow, My flesh is soft and plump, my marrow burning" The cliché, historically and at present, goes something...

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