Romance (from Vulgar Latin , "in the Roman language", i.e., "Latin") may refer to:

Common meanings

Romance (love) Romance or romantic love is a feeling of love for, or a Interpersonal attraction, strong attraction towards another person, and the Courtship, courtship behaviors undertaken by an individual to express those overall feelings and resultant emot ...

, emotional attraction towards another person and the courtship behaviors undertaken to express the feelings *

Romance languages The Romance languages, sometimes referred to as Latin languages or Neo-Latin languages, are the various modern languages that evolved from Vulgar Latin. They are the only extant subgroup of the Italic languages in the Indo-European language fam ...

, a subgroup of the Italic languages **

Romance studies Romance studies or Romance philology ( an, filolochía romanica; ca, filologia romànica; french: romanistique; eo, latinida filologio; it, filologia romanza; pt, filologia românica; ro, romanistică; es, filología románica) is an acade ...

, an academic discipline studying the languages, literatures, and cultures of areas that speak a Romance language

Places

Romance, Arkansas Romance is an unincorporated community in west-central White County, Arkansas, United States. The community is located approximately halfway between the town of Rose Bud to the north, and the unincorporated community of El Paso to the south. Al ...

, U.S. *

Romance, Missouri Romance is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Ozark County, Missouri, Ozark County, Missouri, United States. It is located approximately nine miles north of Gainesville, Missouri, Gainesville. Romance is located in a valley at the ...

, U.S. * Romance, West Virginia U.S. *

Romance, Wisconsin Romance, Wisconsin is an unincorporated community in the town of Genoa in Vernon County, Wisconsin, United States. Religion RoundRiver Institute is a Buddhist retreat and education center located in Romance near the village of Genoa, Wisconsin ...

, U.S.

Arts, entertainment, and media

Film

Romance film Romance films or movies involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typically their journey ...

, a genre of film of which the central plot focuses on the romantic relationships of the protagonists **

Romantic comedy Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and slice of life fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles. In a typica ...

Romantic thriller A romantic thriller is a narrative that involves elements of the romance and thriller genres. A good thriller provides entertainment by making viewers uncomfortable with moments of suspense, the heightened feeling of anxiety and fright. A thril ...

* ''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) * ''Romance'' (1999 film), directed by Catherine Breillat * ''Romance'' (2011 film) * ''Romance'' (2013 film)

Literature

Literary genres

* Adventure tales **

Gaslight romance Gaslamp fantasy (also known as gaslight fantasy or gaslight romance) is a Genre, subgenre of both fantasy and historical fiction. Generally speaking, this particular realm of fantasy employs either a Victorian era, Victorian or Edwardian era, Edw ...

, another name for gaslamp fantasy, featuring fantasy set at a time of approximately 19th-century technology **

Planetary romance Planetary romance is a subgenre of science fiction in which the bulk of the action consists of adventures on one or more exotic alien planets, characterized by distinctive physical and cultural backgrounds. Some planetary romances take place ag ...

, a genre of science fiction consisting of adventure tales on exotic planets **

Ruritanian romance Ruritanian romance is a genre of literature, film and theatre comprising novels, stories, plays and films set in a fictional country, usually in Central or Eastern Europe, such as the "Ruritania" that gave the genre its name. Such stories are typ ...

, a genre of swashbuckling adventure novels, set in a fictional country, usually in Central or Eastern Europe **

Scientific romance Scientific romance is an archaic, mainly British term for the genre of fiction now commonly known as science fiction. The term originated in the 1850s to describe both fiction and elements of scientific writing, but it has since come to refer to ...

, an archaic term for the genre of fiction now commonly known as science fiction *

Chivalric romance As a literary genre, the chivalric romance is a type of prose and verse narrative that was popular in the noble courts of High Medieval and Early Modern Europe. They were fantastic stories about marvel-filled adventures, often of a chivalric k ...

literature, a branch of medieval and medievalist literature * Literature of

Romanticism Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate ...

, a movement from the late 18th century that broke away from neoclassicism and which emphasized nature, the imagination and emotions *

Hellenistic romance Five ancient Greek novels survive complete from antiquity: Chariton's ''Callirhoe'' (mid 1st century), Achilles Tatius' ''Leucippe and Clitophon'' (early 2nd century), Longus' ''Daphnis and Chloe'' (2nd century), Xenophon of Ephesus' ''Ephesian Ta ...

, or Ancient Greek romance, a modern term for the genre of the five surviving Ancient Greek novels *

Romance (prose fiction) The type of romance considered here is mainly the genre of novel defined by the novelist Walter Scott as "a fictitious narrative in prose or verse; the interest of which turns upon marvellous and uncommon incidents", in contrast to mainstream nov ...

, a type of novel, especially, but not necessarily, an historical novel, and distinct from genre fiction love romances *

Romance literature (disambiguation) Romance literature may refer to: *Chivalric romance, a style of heroic prose and verse narrative current in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance *Romance novel, a literary genre developed in Western culture which focuses on the romantic r ...

Romance novel A romance novel or romantic novel generally refers to a type of genre fiction novel which places its primary focus on the relationship and romantic love between two people, and usually has an "emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending." Pre ...

, 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 Amish romance is a literary subgenre of Christian fiction featuring Amish characters, but written and read mostly by evangelical Christian women. An industry term for Amish romance novels is "bonnet rippers" because most feature a woman in a bonne ...

, also known as "bonnet rippers" **

Contemporary romance Contemporary romance is a subgenre of romance novels, generally set contemporaneously with the time of its writing. The largest of the romance novel subgenres, contemporary romance novels usually reflect the mores of their time. Heroines in the co ...

Historical romance Historical romance is a broad category of mass-market fiction focusing on romantic relationships in historical periods, which Walter Scott helped popularize in the early 19th century. Varieties Viking These books feature Vikings during the Da ...

, a 20th-century genre fiction version of the historical novel **

Paranormal romance Paranormal romance is a subgenre of both romantic fiction and speculative fiction. Paranormal romance focuses on romantic love and includes elements beyond the range of scientific explanation, blending together themes from the speculative fiction ...

Regency romance Regency romances are a subgenre of romance novels set during the period of the British Regency (1811–1820) or early 19th century. Rather than simply being versions of contemporary romance stories transported to a historical setting, Regency rom ...

Fantasy romance Romantic fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy fiction, describing a fantasy story using many of the elements and conventions of the chivalric romance genre. One of the key features of romantic fantasy involves the focus on relationships, social, ...

Works

* ''Romance'' (novel), a 1905 novel by Joseph Conrad * ''Romance'' (play), a 2005 play by David Mamet * "Romance" (poem), an 1829 poem by Edgar Allan Poe * ''Romance'' (Sheldon play), a 1913 play by Edward Sheldon *

Shakespeare's late romances The late romances, often simply called the romances, are a grouping of William Shakespeare's last plays, comprising ''Pericles, Prince of Tyre''; ''Cymbeline''; ''The Winter's Tale''; and '' The Tempest''. ''The Two Noble Kinsmen'', of which Shakes ...

, 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 (Achille) Claude Debussy (; 22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the ...

* "Romance", by Gordon Lightfoot from his 1983 album ''

Salute A salute is usually a formal hand gesture or other action used to display respect in military situations. Salutes are primarily associated with the military and law enforcement, but many civilian organizations, such as Girl Guides, Boy Sco ...

'' * "Romance", by Mike Oldfield from his album ''

Light + Shade Light and Shade may refer to: * '' Light + Shade'', a 2005 two-disc album by English musician Mike Oldfield * ''Light and Shade'' (This Ascension album), 1991 * ''Light and Shade'' (Fra Lippo Lippi album), 1987 See also * Lights and Shadows (dis ...

'' * "Romance", the second movement of the suite ''

Lieutenant Kijé Lieutenant Kijé or Kizhe (russian: Пору́чик Киже́, translit. Poruchik Kizhe), originally Kizh (Киж), is a fictional character in an anecdote about the reign of Emperor Paul I of Russia, in which the cover up of a transcript ...

'' (Op. 60) by Sergei Prokofiev * "Romance", by R.E.M., originally released on the soundtrack of the 1987 film ''

Made in Heaven ''Made in Heaven'' is the fifteenth studio album by the British rock band Queen, released on 6 November 1995 by Parlophone Records in the United Kingdom and by Hollywood Records in the United States. It was the band's first and only release so ...

'' * "Romance", from the musical ''

The Desert Song ''The Desert Song'' is an operetta with music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel. It was inspired by the 1925 uprising of the Riffs, a group of Moroccan fighters, against French colonia ...

'' * ''Romance'' in C major, Op. 48, for violin and orchestra by

Camille Saint-Saëns Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (; 9 October 183516 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic music, Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Piano C ...

Violin Romance No. 1 (Beethoven) The Romance for violin and orchestra No. 1 in G major, Op. 40, was composed by Ludwig van Beethoven, one of two such compositions, the other being Romance No. 2 in F major, Op. 50. It was written about 1801, after the second Romance, and was ...

in G major, Op. 40 * Violin Romance No. 2 (Beethoven) in F major, Op. 50 * "Romance" by Marc Ribot from his 1994 album ''

Shrek ''Shrek'' is a 2001 American computer-animated comedy film loosely based on the 1990 book of the same name by William Steig. It is the first installment in the ''Shrek'' franchise. The film was directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenso ...

'' * "Romance" (Buck-Tick song), 2005 single by Buck-Tick * "Romance" (Yoasobi song), 2021 single by Yoasobi

Other uses in music

Romance (music) The term romance ( es, romance/romanza, it, romanza, german: Romanze, french: romance, russian: романс, pt, romance, ro, romanţă) has a centuries-long history. Applied to narrative ballads in Spain, it came to be used by the 18th cen ...

, a type of ballad or lyrical song **

Romance (meter) The ''romance'' (the term is Spanish, and is pronounced accordingly: ) is a metrical form used in Spanish poetry.A. Robert LauerSpanish Metrification, University of Oklahoma. Accessed online 2010-02-10. It consists of an indefinite series (''tir ...

, a metric pattern found in Spanish ballads **

Romancero {{Short description, Collection of Spanish romances, a type of folk ballad A ''romancero'' is a collection of Spanish '' romances'', a type of folk ballad (sung narrative). The ''romancero'' is the entire corpus of such ballads. As a distinct body o ...

, the corpus of such Spanish ballads, or a collection of them **

Russian romance Russian romance (russian: рома́нс ''románs'') is a type of sentimental art song with hints of Gypsy influence that was developed in Imperial Russia by such composers as Nikolai Titov (1800-1875), Alexander Alyabyev (1787–1851), Alexa ...

or Russian Gypsy song, a type of sentimental art song with hints of Gypsy influence that was developed in Imperial Russia **

Scandinavian romanser The Scandinavian , plural , is a classical music art song equivalent to the German , French or Russian romance. Term The term ' is Swedish, plural ', and in Swedish ( :sv:Romans (musik)) applies also to the German . References {{reflist Dan ...

, classical art songs, equivalent to the German Lied *

Romance (band) ''Romance'' were a four-piece live rock band from London that formed in 2010. The band went on to support The Cult on their UK tour and were signed to Universal subsidiary Fiction Records. The band consisted of Jamie Lovatt (Guitar and Vocals), J ...

, rock band from London *

Romance Tour (disambiguation) Romance Tour may refer to: * Romance Tour (Luis Miguel), 1991 tour by Luis Miguel * The Romance Tour, 2020 tour by Camila Cabello {{Disambiguation ...

Television

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