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Romance


Romance may refer to:

Common meanings

  • Romance (love), emotional attraction towards another person and the courtship behaviors undertaken to express the feelings
    • Romantic orientation, the classification of the sex or gender with which a person experiences romantic attraction towards or is likely to have a romantic relationship with
    • Romantic friendship, a very close but typically non-sexual relationship between friends, often involving a degree of physical closeness beyond that which is common in contemporary Western societies
  • Romance languages, a subgroup of the Italic languages
    • Romance studies, an academic discipline studying the languages, literatures, and cultures of areas that speak a Romance language

Places

  • Romance, Arkansas, U.S.
  • Romance, Missouri, U.S.
  • Romance, West Virginia U.S.
  • Romance, Wisconsin, U.S.

Arts, entertainment, and media

Comics

  • Romance comics, genre of comics of which the central plot focuses on the romantic relationships of the main characters

Film

  • Romance film, a genre of film of which the central plot focuses on the romantic relationships of the protagonists
    • Romantic comedy
    • Romantic thriller
  • Romance (1920 film), silent film, directed by Chester Withey
  • Romance (1930 film), starring Greta Garbo
  • Romance (1936 film), an Austrian film starring Carl Esmond
  • Romance (1983 film), a Bollywood film produced and directed by Ramanand Sagar
  • Romance (1986 film), Italian drama film directed by Massimo Mazzucco
  • Romance (1999 film), directed by Catherine Breillat
  • Romance, a 2001 Indian Malayalam-language film, starring Shakeela
  • Romance (2011 film), animated
  • Romance (2013 film), Telugu-language comedy film directed by Darling Swamy

Literature

Literary genres

  • Adventure tales
    • Gaslight romance, another name for gaslamp fantasy, featuring fantasy set at a time of approximately 19th-century technology
    • Planetary romance, a genre of science fiction consisting of adventure tales on exotic planets
    • Ruritanian romance, a genre of swashbuckling adventure novels, set in a fictional country, usually in Central or Eastern Europe
    • Scientific romance, an archaic term for the genre of fiction now commonly known as science fiction
  • Chivalric romance literature, a branch of medieval and medievalist literature
  • Literature of Romanticism, a movement from the late 18th century that broke away from neoclassicism and which emphasized nature, the imagination and emotions
  • Hellenistic romance, or Ancient Greek romance, a modern term for the genre of the five surviving Ancient Greek novels
  • Romance (prose fiction), a type of novel, especially, but not necessarily, a historical novel, and distinct from genre-fiction love romances
  • Romance literature (disambiguation)
  • Romance novel, a genre of novel which emerged in the 20th century, directed at women readers, that focuses on romantic love, with many sub-genres:
    • Amish romance, also known as "bonnet rippers"
    • Contemporary romance
    • Historical romance, a 20th-century genre fiction version of the historical novel
    • Paranormal romance
    • Regency romance
    • Fantasy romance

Works

  • Romance (novel), a 1905 novel by Joseph Conrad
  • "Romance" (poem), an 1829 poem by Edgar Allan Poe
  • Romance (Mamet play), a 2005 play by David Mamet
  • Romance (Sheldon play), a 1913 play by Edward Sheldon
  • Shakespeare's late romances, or tragicomedies

Music

Albums

  • Romance (Camila Cabello album), 2019
  • Romance (David Cassidy album), 1985
  • Romance (Luis Miguel album), 1991
  • Romance (Ali Project album), 2006
  • Romance (Dave Palmer album), 2006
  • Romance (Frank Sinatra album), 2004
  • Romance (Tubelord album), 2011
  • Romances (Kaada/Patton album), 2004
  • Romances (Luis Miguel album), 1997
  • Romance (Dorso album), 1991
  • Romance (Oneida album), 2018

Songs

  • "Romance" (guitar piece), also known as "Romance Anónimo", a Spanish instrumental guitar piece of anonymous origin
  • "Romance", by Claude Debussy
  • "Romance", by Gordon Lightfoot from his 1983 album Salute
  • "Romance", by Mike Oldfield from his album Light + Shade
  • "Romance", the second movement of the suite Lieutenant Kijé (Op. 60) by Sergei Prokofiev
  • "Romance", by R.E.M., originally released on the soundtrack of the 1987 film Made in Heaven
  • "Romance", from the musical The Desert Song
  • Romance in C major, Op. 48, for violin and orchestra by Camille Saint-Saëns
  • Violin Romance No. 1 (Beethoven) in G major, Op. 40
  • Violin Romance No. 2 (Beethoven) in F major, Op. 50
  • "Romance" by Marc Ribot from his 1994 album Shrek
  • "Romance" (Buck-Tick song), 2005 single by Buck-Tick
  • "Romance" (Yoasobi song), 2021 single by Yoasobi

Other uses in music

  • Romance (music), a type of ballad or lyrical song
    • Romance (meter), a metric pattern found in Spanish ballads
    • Romancero, the corpus of such Spanish ballads, or a collection of them
    • Russian romance or Russian Gypsy song, a type of sentimental art song with hints of Gypsy influence that was developed in Imperial Russia
    • Scandinavian romanser, classical art songs, equivalent to the German Lied
  • Romance (band), rock band from London
  • Romance Tour (disambiguation)

Television

  • Romance (American TV series), 1949 American anthology series
  • Romance (South Korean TV series), 2002 South Korean television drama series

See also

  • A Fine Romance (disambiguation)
  • A Romance (disambiguation)
  • Romantic (disambiguation)
  • Romanticism

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Text submitted to CC-BY-SA license. Source: Romance by Wikipedia (Historical)