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Romance genre main plot centers around individuals falling in love.
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Greek novels laid the foundation of what is now known as "romance."
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Romance genre in the medieval times were popular in France known as classic romance.
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Later people started writting plays called tragicomedies, that were romances with happy endings, adventure, long journeys and even tragedy endings.
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In the 1600's the novel of Don Quixote changed the idealistic virtues of knights to a harsher reality, vanishing the romance of knights and love.
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As a result by 1650 romance genre suffers and the beginning of more realism begins.
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In the 1800's the genre of romances is modified to a darker romance. The novel of Frankestein first published in London.
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It originates in England, in the twentieth century. Over the years the romance genre broadens.
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The Harlequin company starts publising romance in New York and Toronto.
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New romance categories start to become common. Such as romantic suspense, erothic romance, and sweet romance.
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Today we can find many different romance litterature and is now found worldwide. Romance novel is the best selling of the paper back fiction market in North America. Romance is not only found in litterature, we can now find it in movies, Brodway, and plays.
