| 1770 | The Candidates. Munford, who is regarded as the first American comic dramatist, satirizes in this unproduced play local elections in Virginia. It is believed to be the first American play to feature a black character. |
| 1798 | The Candidates; or, The Humours of a Virginia Election. A three-act satire about the conduct of elections in colonial Virginia. Historians consider it the first American farce. Munford was a Virginia planter and a legislator who served as a county official and also in the House of Burgesses and the General Assembly. His works do not appear in print until after his death, when his son William assembles his Collection of Plays and Poems. |
