This chapter takes an intercultural perspective as it reflects on its (British) author’s experiences teaching early modern English drama at a university in southern China. Specifically, it shows how translating John Fletcher’s The Island Princess in various ways led Chinese students of English to engage in processes of intercultural mediation that helped them understand this seemingly obscure play on its own terms, and on their own. On this basis, the chapter makes a case for the role that translating early modern English texts—including those that are not by Shakespeare—can play in helping students to understand not only apparently unfamiliar cultural products, but also their own cultural assumptions and identities.