Golden Age

Golden Age refers to a mythological period of primeval human existence perceived as an ideal state when human beings were pure and free from suffering.

"Golden Age" is also used for any historical period in a field of endeavour that produced superlative achievements; see Golden Age (metaphor) for list of additional golden ages.

As time period

• Golden Age of Broadway, the period from about 1943 to 1968 that brought musicals like Oklahoma! (1943); Kiss Me, Kate (1948); West Side Story (1957); The Sound of Music (1959); and Hello, Dolly! (1964) to the Broadway stage.
• Golden Age of Capitalism, a period of rapid growth in the western economies from 1945 to 1970
• Golden Age of Comic Books, a comic book period of the early–mid 20th century
• Golden Age of cricket, the period between 1890 and 1914
• Golden Age of Science Fiction, a period from the late 1930s or early 1940s through to the 1950s
• Golden Age of Television a period lasting from around 1949 until the early 1960s
• Golden Age of Video Arcade Games, a peak era of video arcade game popularity, innovation, and earnings, from about 1978 to 1986
• Golden age hip hop, a period in hip hop music
• Golden Age of Piracy, a period roughly spanning from the 1680s to the 1720s
• Dutch Golden Age, spanning roughly the 17th century
• Islamic Golden Age (Islamic Renaissance)
• Golden age of Kiev around the year 1000
• Golden age of illustration, a period in US illustration history
• Age of Pericles, or Golden Age of Athens, a period of time in ancient Greek history, from 448 BCE to 404 BCE
• Old-time radio, or Golden Age of Radio, a period lasting from the early 1920s until television's replacement of radio in the late 1950s and early 1960s

As name or title of literary work or publication

• A Golden Age, a novel by the Bangladesh born writer Tahmima Anam
• The Golden Age (magazine), a general-interest magazine published by Jehovah's Witnesses
• The Golden Age (comics), a four-issue comic book limited series published by DC Comics in 1993
• The Golden Age (play) by the Australian playwright Louis Nowra
• The Golden Age (Gore Vidal novel), a 2000 historical novel
• The Golden Age (Grahame), a 1925 book of reminiscences by Kenneth Grahame
• The Golden Age (science fiction trilogy), a 2002–3 science fiction trilogy by John C. Wright.
  • The Golden Age (John C. Wright novel), the first book of the trilogy
• The Golden Age, a newspaper published 1860–1864 in Australia, now The Queanbeyan Age

As title of musical work

• "Golden Age", a song by Max Coveri
• The Golden Age of Grotesque, a 2003 album by Marilyn Manson
• "Golden Age", a song by Midnight Oil from their 2002 album Capricornia
• "Golden Age", a song by TV on the Radio from their 2008 album Dear Science
• The Golden Age (album) by the alternative rock band Cracker
• The Golden Age (Bobby Conn album), 2001 album by Chicago rocker Bobby Conn
• The Golden Age (Legendary Pink Dots album), 1989
• "The Golden Age," a ballet by Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich
• "The Golden Age", a song by Beck on the 2002 album Sea Change and covered by The Flaming Lips on their 2003 EP Fight Test and by KT Tunstall on her 2006 album KT Tunstall's Acoustic Extravaganza
• "The Golden Age", an album by American Music Club

As title of an audio book

• "Golden Age" (Torchwood), a special 2009 radio episode of the BBC TV series Torchwood.

As title of a film

• Golden Age (internet series), a 2006 animated internet series later released as a film
• L'Âge d'Or (The Golden Age), a 1930 surrealist movie by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí

Other uses

• Golden Age Lake, a man-made lake under construction in Turkmenistan

See also

• Golden Years (disambiguation)

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