Introduction
0.1 Dramatic Setting for the Emergence of Harold Pinter
0.2 Pinter the Playwright
0.3 Thesis Apology
Chapter One Discourse of Ambiguity
1.1 Absurdity or Ambiguity
1.2 Ambiguity: Pinter's Thesis
1.3 Quicksand: Pinter's Epistemic Metaphor
1.4 Uncertainty: The Prerequisite for Games
Chapter Two The Symbiotic Contexture
2.1 Time and Space in Pinter's Drama
2.2 The Identity Dilemma
2.3 Paradigm of Identity: Inter-Subjectivity
Chapter Three Game Anatomy
3.1 Pozzo's Game in Perspective
3.2 Ben vs. Gus: Prisoners' Dilemma
3.3 Davies's Zero-Sum Game
3.4 The Last War of Ruth
Chapter Four Rhetoric of Strategies
4.1 Pinter's Rhetoric against Uncertainty
4.2 Ethic Encoding
4.3 Strategies for Will Accomplishment
Conclusion
Bibliography
Acknowledgements