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The Tempest as Romance and Anti-Romance

University of Toronto Quarterly, 1986
By 1611, when The Tempest was probably written, Shakespeare's audiences had reason to count on certain basic returns from romantic comedy or tragicomedy. Above all, Sidney and Jonson notwithstanding, they could expect to travel widely—in place, in time, in the realm of imagination generally.
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The Romance of Medicine

The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 1925
"Taught by art divine the sage physician eludes the urn, and chains or exiles death." The story of medicine enthralls the imagination by its infinite charm and arouses admiration for its victories in the battles against disease. Its romance is so compelling that men cannot be unmoved by its blessings, when they realize with us its splendor.
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Romance of Mathematics

The Mathematics Teacher, 1927
It may seem unwarranted to speak of romance in connection with a subject commonly supposed to be as dry and prosaic as mathematics. The dictionary defines a romance as a “fictitious and wonderful tale.” The tale which I am about to relate is indeed wonderful but it is not fictitious—it is true and it is the kind of truth that is stranger than fiction ...
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The Romance of the Family

Hastings Center Report, 2008
Freud called it the "romance of the family"--the fantasy that the grown-ups passing themselves off as your mother and father are impostors, and your "real" family is not only much more loving, but rich, or titled, or preferably both. What it boils down to, of course, is the thought that, however good families are, they're never quite good enough ...
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