The styles and subject matter range from broad farce to intricate comedies of manners to melodrama to romance, giving Coward a chance to show off his range as a playwright and actor.

Rather than simply being versions of contemporary romance stories transported to a historical setting, Regency romances are a distinct genre with their own plot and stylistic conventions that derive from the works of Jane Austen, ( and to some extent from distinguished Austen progeny such as Georgette Heyer and Clare Darcy ), and from the fiction genre known as the novel of manners.

As well as literary styles, Clarke pastiches many Romantic literary genres: the comedy of manners, the Gothic tale, the silver-fork novel, the military adventure, the Byronic hero, and the historical romance of Walter Scott.

Still Boiardo was drawn to the world of romance by a profound sympathy for chivalrous manners and feelings ; that is to say, for love, courtesy, valour and generosity.

The main purpose of Bart Simpson's Guide to Life is to give supposedly helpful tips and advice on how to cope with life ( including parents, peers, school, romance, health, and manners ) as experienced by the fictional character Bart Simpson from the animated television series The Simpsons.

In American romance, almost nothing rates higher than what the movie men have called `` meeting cute '' -- that is, boy-meets-girl seems more adorable if it doesn't take place in an atmosphere of correct and acute boredom.

Aeneas is the subject of the French mediaeval romance Roman d ' Enéas.

The primary purpose of this text is to refine the literary concept dhvani or poetic suggestion, by arguing for the existence of rasa-dhvani, primarily in forms of Sanskrit including a word, sentence or whole work " suggests " a real-world emotional state or bhāva, but thanks to aesthetic distance, the sensitive spectator relishes the rasa, the aesthetic flavor of tragedy, heroism or romance.

Little is known of the family with certainty ; the Chambers Biographical Dictionary records that they arrived in Spain in the 8th century but the name is familiar from the romance by Ginés Perez de Hita, Guerras civiles de Granada, which celebrates the feuds of the Abencerrages and the rival family of the Zegris, and the cruel treatment to which the former were subjected.

To this day, Camelot is invoked to describe the idealism, romance, and tragedy of the Kennedy years.

) to trivial ( romance, games ) can be any kind of imaginative encoding: flowers, game cards, clothes, fans, hats, melodies, birds, etc., in which the sole requisite is the previous agreement of the meaning by both the sender and the receiver.

A picaresque novel with a story similar to that of a more serious bildungsroman, it parodies many adventure and romance clichés, the struggles of which are caricatured in a tone that is mordantly matter-of-fact.

These songs of longing and romance once served as a courtship ritual and still do today to some extent on this island where the drum is an integral part of the culture.

What small story there is contains a chaste romance and lots of references to the lessons to be learned from " this strangely innocent but tragic creature.

Gothic fiction, sometimes referred to as Gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature that combines elements of both horror and romance.

Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto ( 1764 ) is often regarded as the first true Gothic romance.

The most famous parody of the Gothic is Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey ( 1818 ) in which the naive protagonist, after reading too much Gothic fiction, conceives herself a heroine of a Radcliffian romance and imagines murder and villainy on every side, though the truth turns out to be much more prosaic.

A fitter scene for his romance he probably could not have chosen .” Similarly, De Vore states, “ The setting is greatly influential in Gothic novels.

In literature, Gothic novel combines dark elements of both horror and romance: English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto is one of the first writers who explored this genre.

Gone with the Wind, first published in 1936, is a romance novel written by Margaret Mitchell, who received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the book in 1937.

A grail, wondrous but not explicitly " holy ", first appears in Perceval le Gallois, an unfinished romance by Chrétien de Troyes: it is a processional salver used to serve at a feast.

But it is crucial to remember that Ivanhoe, unlike the Waverly books, is entirely a romance.

Similarly, the most popular Arthurian tale throughout this period seems to have been that of Tom Thumb, which was told first through chapbooks and later through the political plays of Henry Fielding ; although the action is clearly set in Arthurian Britain, the treatment is humorous and Arthur appears as a primarily comedic version of his romance character.

Although the " Arthur of romance " was sometimes central to these new Arthurian works ( as he was in Burne-Jones's The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon, 1881 – 1898 ), on other occasions he reverted back to his medieval status and is either marginalised or even missing entirely, with Wagner's Arthurian operas providing a notable instance of the latter.

Tennyson had reworked the romance tales of Arthur to suit and comment upon the issues of his day, and the same is often the case with modern treatments too.

The romance tradition of Arthur is particularly evident and, according to critics, successfully handled in Robert Bresson's Lancelot du Lac ( 1974 ), Eric Rohmer's Perceval le Gallois ( 1978 ) and perhaps John Boorman's fantasy film Excalibur ( 1981 ); it is also the main source of the material utilised in the Arthurian spoof Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( 1975 ).

He picked up a masters degree from Yale for giving an oral dissertation to the Yale graduating class, and later that year opened a small, private school in western Connecticut that was an instant success, though he quickly closed it and left town — likely due to a failed romance.

Reprinted in 2003, its new foreword states that Winchester has been banned from Tristan da Cunha due to his writing about the war-time romance of one of the local women.

In cultures across pre-Christian Europe, mistletoe was seen as a representation of divine male essence ( and thus romance, fertility and vitality ), possibly due to a resemblance between the berries and semen.

The Fisher King first appears in Chrétien de Troyes's 12th century French romance Perceval, the Story of the Grail ; he has been dealt a mortal wound in the leg ( Brân's wound was in his foot ) but stays alive in his mystical castle due to the effects of the Grail, waiting to be healed by Percival.

However, this rags to riches story, though it claims to be authentic and is accepted among historians, leads one to believe that tale may have been twisted due to the detail of how the romance was portrayed.

The Turin manuscript also contains the romance of Les Lorrains a summary in seventeen lines of another version of the story, according to which Huon's exile is due to his having slain a count in the emperor's palace.

She becomes friends with the town's druggist ( pharmacist ), Murphy Jones ( James Garner ), but a romance between them seems unlikely due to Murphy's age and because Emma allows her ex-husband, Bobby Jack Moriarty ( Brian Kerwin ), to move back in with her and their 12-year-old son, Jake ( Corey Haim ).

Although they fall in love, she is unable to take the romance further due to her bleak past.

In response to an elder's visions that Angel is suffering less due to his growing romance with Buffy, Jenny is instructed to impede their relationship.

In culture, arranged marriages and betrothals are customs that may conflict with romance due to the nature of the arrangement.

American Mustangs have been protected since 1971 in part due to their romance and connection to the history of the American West.

The show drops many hints of a budding romance between Doyle and Aimee but was never given time to grow due to the show not being renewed for a second season.

Clarissa and Sam's relationship was a novelty on television at the time, due to few television series allowing a girl and a boy to be merely friends without romance blossoming.

To his research are due, among other matters of literary interest, the first account of Thomas Carlyle's Lectures on periods of European culture ; the identification of Shelley as the author of a review ( in The Critical Review of December 1814 ) of a lost romance by James Hogg ; a description of Shelley's Philosophical View of Reform ; a manuscript diary of Fabre d ' Églantine ; and a record by Dr Wilhelm Weissenborn of Goethe's last days and death.

The romance of the Red and Pink Rangers, Leo and Kendrix, was going to develop more and be more important to the story, but due to Valerie Vernon's leukemia and departure from the show, the story arcs were scrapped.

In fiction, due to the influence of Merlin, a wise old man is often presented in the form of a wizard or other magician in medieval chivalric romance and modern fantasy literature and films ( e. g. Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda, Gandalf, or Albus Dumbledore ) See List of magicians in fantasy for more examples.

Unfortunately for, " Our Rose ," we find her at the receiving end of many a failed romance on the end of the telephone due to her unfortunate draw of the affections of married men, whom she all refers to as a Mr. "-.

Yaoi and Yuri ( also known as Boys ' Love and Girls ' Love, respectively, as well as Shōnen-ai and Shōjo-ai in the West, although these are not used in Japan due to pedophilic undertones ) are Japanese genres which have homosexual romance themes, across a variety of media.

However, their romance soon sours, due to the increasing pressures of Rodin's fame and his love for another woman.

Racine was also at odds with Taryn Blake ( Nicollette Sheridan ), the top teen model in the business who was proving to be a liability due to unprofessional behavior, problems with drugs and alcohol, and a sensationalized romance with 1980s pop star John Waite ( playing himself for several episodes ).

As a result, Frank and Rachel did attempt a romance but due to Frank's later account, Rachel was an empty shell without Dracula to fight and the two shortly parted but not without deep regrets.

This is most likely to avoid speculation about a romance blossoming between the two, due to them actually being father and daughter.

The film covers some little known aspects of Lincoln's early life, such as his romance with Ann Rutledge, his depression and feared suicidal tendencies after her death, and his unexplained breaking off of his engagement with Mary Todd ( although the film surmises that this was due to unresolved feelings over Ann Rutledge and adds a dramatic scene where Lincoln stands Mary up on their scheduled wedding day, which never happened ).

Guys and Balls ( German: Männer wie wir, literally Men like us ) is a 2004 sports comedy / romance film by German American director Sherry Hormann about a gay goalkeeper who assembles a gay-only soccer team to play against his ex-team, which fired him due to homophobia.