Introduction 1
0.1 Dramatic Setting for the Emergence of Harold Pinter 3
0.2 Pinter the Playwright 12
0.3 Thesis Apology 44
Chapter One Discourse of Ambiguity 53
1.1 Absurdity or Ambiguity 56
1.2 Ambiguity:Pinter's Thesis 71
1.3 Quicksand:Pinter's Epistemic Metaphor 94
1.4 Uncertainty:The Prerequisite for Games 100
Chapter Two The Symbiotic Contexture 105
2.1 Time and Space in Pinter's Drama 107
2.2 The Identity Dilemma 128
2.3 Paradigm of Identity:Inter-Subjectivity 139
Chapter Three Game Anatomy 155
3.1 Pozzo's Game in Perspective 157
3.2 Ben vs.Gus:Prisoners' Dilemma 160
3.3 Davies's Zero-Sum Game 170
3.4 The Last War of Ruth 182
Chapter Four Rhetoric of Strategies 193
4.1 Pinter's Rhetoric against Uncertainty 196
4.2 Ethic Encoding 209
4.3 Strategies for Will Accomplishment 220
Conclusion 233
Bibliography 240
Acknowledgements 255