Romance
Romance or romantic can refer to several things. Although commonly used today to refer to love, it previously had a wider application.
- The Romance was a genre of Medieval and Renaissance narrative fiction
- Shakespeare's late romances are a group of plays related to the narrative genre
- Romanticism was an artistic movement in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
- Romantic poetry normally refers to poems from this movement
- Romantic music normally refers to music from this movement
- Romance can refer to romantic love
- Romance novels are novels about romantic love
- Romance and romantic comedy are film genres about romantic love
- The Romance is a type of musical composition
- Beethoven's Opus 40, Romance for Violin in G major; and opus 50, Romance for Violin in F major
- The Romance languages are European languages that descend from Latin, such as French, Spanish and Italian
- Romance is a 1999 French film directed by Catherine Breillat