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.

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

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

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