Chaucer does not have his own wounded love to display and therefore allows himself an ironic detachment from events and Criseyde is more sympathetically portrayed .
Geoffrey Chaucer 's Troilus and Criseyde reflects a more humorous world - view than Boccaccio 's poem .
Geoffrey Chaucer does not have Geoffrey Chaucer 's own wounded love to display and therefore allows himself an ironic detachment from events Troilus and Criseyde Criseyde is more sympathetically portrayed .
Geoffrey Chaucer 's Troilus and Criseyde reflects a more humorous world - view than Boccaccio 's poem .