This chapter explores the complex intercultural mediation involved in translating a highly specific historical text for another cultural context. Specifically, it focuses on the difficulty—perhaps even the impossibility—of translating the speech of Falstaff, a character so embedded in the specific histories of Calvinism and Puritanism in early modern England, into a language shaped by Spain’s very different religious and social history. This chapter shows how the challenges involved are not just linguistic and cultural, but intertextual, as translators seek to give audiences access to a character who is so steeped in texts and even terms that seem inaccessible in the target language.