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3Romance is a word of many historical meanings. Starting with the ChivalricRomance, where it meant "work written in the vernacular."
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5From that, it derived the meaning of tales of drama, adventure, and larger than life characters and often magical elements and strange monsters. Hence, writers speak of Creator/{{Shakespeare}}'s romances, and PlanetaryRomance, and RuritanianRomance. It is the source of the name of {{Romanticism}}.
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7To this day, "romantic" is used as a contrast to "[[{{Realism}} realistic]]" from the movement. This can reflect anything from pure magic to the use of atypical, exaggerated characters for heroes and villains, clear conflicts, and definite resolutions.
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9It is also used as a contrast to "classical"; in the tradition of the chivalric romance complicated plot threads and sometimes RandomEventsPlot, it, in this sense, denotes works with a wild miscellany of events, a luxuriant degree of detail and complexity (not necessarily organized), in contrast to an aesthetic of simplicity and purity.
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11But nowadays, the most common meaning is that the Romance [[{{Genres}} genre]] is about people falling in love. See RomanceNovel for more and LoveTropes for many tropes typical of this definition.
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13!!Indexes
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15!!!Subgenres
16* ParanormalRomance
17* QueerRomance
18** YaoiGenre
19** YuriGenre
20* RomanticComedy
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22!!!Works
23* RomanceGame
24* RomanceNovel
25* RomanceWebcomics
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27!!Examples:
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29[[AC:Anime & Manga]]
30* ''Manga/AConditionCalledLove''
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32[[AC:Comic Books]]
33* ''ComicBook/GirlsLoveStories''
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