This chapter is on ‘about-play ballads’ that might be sources, performance reflections or playbook reflections of plays. The first section is about the play-ballads of Christopher Marlowe’s Faustus, Tamburlaine, Jew of Malta. The second section is about ballads for other notable plays: William Sampson’s The Vow Breaker, The Puritan Widow, Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, Arden of Faversham; Mucedorus. The third section considers plays that relate to more than one ballad: Thomas Dekker, William Rowley, John Ford and John Webster’s lost The Late Murder in White Chapel or Keep the Widow Waking, and an anonymous play, perhaps by Thomas Heywood, King Edward the Fourth. The chapter shows that while some plays had ballads that told only a corner of their story, others had several linked ballads telling or retelling multiple bits of the narrative. Many more extant ballads are play ones than has been recognised before, and they all modify plays in extraordinary ways.