Key Facts:

• Writer: Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400)
• Written Time: Mid-1380s
• Source: "Il Filostrato," a narrative poem by the Italian poet Giovanni Boccaccio.
• Tone: Tragic
• Date of Publication: 1386
• Genre: Medieval romance, Epic poem, Tragedy, and Courtly Love literature.
• Lines: 8239
• Parts/ Books: 5
• Narrator: Pandarus (Maternal Uncle of Criseyde)
• Point of View: An omniscient third-person narrator
• Written style: The poem is written in rhyme royal, a seven-line stanza with a rhyme scheme of ABABBCC.
• Setting: 

• Place Setting: Troy
• Time Setting: During the Trojan War