# 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
* Romance (Fontaines DC album), 2024

#### 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 drama series
* "Romance" (Not Going Out), a 2017 episode