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romance romance
romance [O.Fr.,=something written in the popular language, i.e., a Romance language ]. The roman of the Middle Ages was a form of chivalric and romantic literature widely diffused throughout Europe from the 11th cent. With the Provençal troubadours the roman was a form of narrative,... Read more
Orlando (name) Orlando (name)
Orlando the Italian form of Roland, a hero of the romances of Charlemagne. Orlando Furioso is a poem by Ariosto, published in its complete form in 1532, designed to exalt the house of Este and its legendary ancestor Rogero ( Ruggiero). It continues the story of the love of Orlando (Roland in the... Read more
the Martyrs of Salem Witchcraft or the Martyrs of Salem Witchcraft or
Witchcraft; or, the Martyrs of Salem (1847), a play by Cornelius Mathews. [Bowery Theatre, 5 perf.] Gideon Bodish ( James E. Murdoch) comes to the defense of his morose, memory‐haunted mother, Ambla ( Mrs. Wilkinson), when she is placed on trial for witchcraft. The court is heavily... Read more
The Blithedale Romance The Blithedale Romance
Blithedale Romance, The, romance by Hawthorne, published in 1852. Blithedale was suggested by Brook Farm, and the character Zenobia by Margaret Fuller, while Miles Coverdale is a fictional self‐portrait.Coverdale visits Blithedale Farm, near Boston, a socialized community for the betterment... Read more
Eleonora Eleonora
Eleonora, story by Poe, in The Gift (1842). This brief romance tells of a youth reared with his cousin Eleonora in the beautiful Valley of the Many‐Colored Grass. They fall in love, but she dies after he pledges never to wed “any daughter of Earth.” Grieving, he goes to a... Read more
Chretien de Troyes Chretien de Troyes
Chrétien de Troyes or Chrestien de Troyes , fl. 1170, French poet, author of the first great literary treatments of the Arthurian legend . His narrative romances, composed c.1170-c.1185 in octosyllabic rhymed couplets, include Érec et Énide; Cligès; Lancelot, le... Read more
Longus Longus
Longus , fl. 3d cent. AD, Greek writer. The pastoral romance Daphnis and Chloë is attributed to him. Idyllic in nature, the poem tells the charming story of the love of a goatherd and a shepherdess. Daphnis and Chloë was widely popular in France and England in the 17th and 18th cent.... Read more
Troilus and Cressida Troilus and Cressida
Troilus and Cressida , a medieval romance distantly related to characters in Greek legend. Troilus, a Trojan prince (son of Priam and Hecuba), fell in love with Cressida (Chryseis), daughter of Calchas. When she was exchanged for a Trojan prisoner of war, Cressida swore to be faithful to Troilus,... Read more
Blanche Willis Howard Blanche Willis Howard
Howard, Blanche Willis (1847–98), novelist born in Maine, lived after 1875 in Germany, marrying there and becoming the Baroness von Teuffel. She wrote many exotic romances, of which the most popular was Guenn: A Wave on the Breton Coast (1883), the story of an egocentric American artist who... Read more
Isolde Isolde
Isolde ♀ The name of the tragic mistress of Tristan in the Arthurian romances. There are several versions of the story. The main features are that the beautiful Isolde, an Irish princess, is betrothed to the aged King Mark of Cornwall. However, through accidentally drinking a magic potion,... Read more

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